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WORCESTER 
IN THE SPANISH WAR 



BEING THE STORIES OF 



Companies A, C, and H, 2d Regiment 

AND Company G, 9th Regiment 

M. V. M. 



DURING THl. WAR KOR THE LIBl.RATION OK CUBA 

Mav — November, 1898 



WITH A ROSTER OF E. R. SHUMWAV CAMP, No. 30 
SPANISH WAR \'ETERANS 



FOLLOWED BY A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF 

WORCESTER CITIZENS 

IN AIDING THE SOLDIERS AND THEIR 

FAMILIES 



By ALFRED S. ROE 

.■i I'lUr,,,, ,4 the Civil ll'^r, V)/-V),- 






WORCESTER, MASS. 

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR 

1905 



LIBHARY »' 30NGHESS 
I wo OoDies liuttavcj 

JUL 11 iau5 

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PREFACE. 



Readers of this \olumc will ol)serve 
that in no sense is it a history of. the 
strife rendered necessary by the 
struggle of Cuba for independence, it 
being a iilain statement of the part 
borne bv Worcester men and boys in 
tlie cit\'s several militia conijjanies. 

The story itself is the outgrowth of 
a beginning made in the W orcester 
.Magazine, .\o\ember. l()02, when a 
resume of the part borne in the.'^panish 
War b\- .\ Company, or the Cit}- 
( iuards, was undertaken. Later the 
same was fidlowed by a similar nar- 
rative of the Light Infantry. The 
work of collecting and arranging ma- 
terial for one-half of the companies 
concerned in the war ha\ing been 
done, the engravings used being ac- 
cessil)le and the ty]ie itself being, for 
the most part, still set up. what more 
natural than that the other two com- 
panies shoidd recei\e similar treat- 
ment "•" 

The d( iuble colunm ]iage and the 
somewhat peculiar shape ot the 
volume are the residls of facts alreaily 
stated, with the ailditional truth that 
illustrations, whether grou])S of indi- 
viduals, scent-r\ (jr e\ents, can be 
more conveniently employt-d on a mag- 
azine l)age than in a smaller book. 

No store of this nature can be told 
without many conferences and com- 
parisons with those who had a part in 
the events descrilied. I'".\er\- word in 
the vohnue was read to one or more 
niemlu'rs of the comp;mies, that con- 
firmation or <lenial might be had. The 



newsi)apers of iSgS. with home letters, 
diaries, journals, and word-of-mouth 
recitals, ha\'e been employed to give to 
the stor\- an air of direct contact not 
( itherwise attainalile. 

In telling the deeds of those who 
served, one cannot sujjpress a feeling 
of regret for the others wdio had no 
chance. \\ hen the war rumors were 
rife, no one thought it ])ossible that 
]')atter\- 11 \vould remain at home and 
have no part in those stirring times, 
yet such was the case. There had 
been \'ery few left in the P.attery 
ranks had not the men supposed that 
Massachusetts .Vrtillery would be as 
necessary as Hay ."state Infantry. Fate, 
howexer. was md<ind. for, sa\e a short 
tour of clut\- on IMnm Islaml, the sum- 
mer of iS()S was (|uite mieventful fur 
the artiller\inen, Avhile their brothers 
in the infantr\ ranks were winning 
fame and honors in active ser\-ice : 
hence this history cannot include a 
record of 1 lattery \\. much as the 
writer and the citv would be pleased 
to lia\'e it iiossilde. 

Then, too, there is the long list of 
Worcester |iatriots who, failing in 
their ettorts to enter the several com- 
panies, sought opportimities for mil- 
itary experience in the regular army. 
The number was as large or larger 
than that of the men in the home com- 
panies, and nothing would please the 
writer more than to give their names 
and services could the same be ob- 
tained. Captain D. F. Anglum, who 
had the recruitins" station in Worces- 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



ter, and who sent on such a fine array 
of the city's youth, did ncit retain his 
rolls, and access to them, nnw in the 
custody of the government, is denied. 
While reference to the daily papers of 
the period and the careful scrutiny of 
war histories might reveal some por- 
tion of the names desired, still the roll 
would be so imperfect that it is 
deemed best to confine the narrative 
to the work of Worcester militiamen. 

This conclusion rules out the inter- 
esting stories of West Pointers : Geo. 
H. G. Gale, Roger B. Bryan, Marcus 
D. Cronin, Roger F. Gardner, Edmund 
N. Benchley ; with Annapolis men. 
Charles Ward Bartlett, .\ustin M. 
Knight, Timothy S. O'Leary and 
Ralph Earle, all of them being repre- 
sentatives of ^\'orcester in the army 
or navy during the war, and each one 
giving a good account of himself. 

.■\t one time it looked as though 
volunteer organizations would be 
called for instead of militia, and the 
quota of Massachusetts in such an 
event was four regiments, and among 
the colonels thus designated l.)y Gov- 
ernor Wolcott was Major E. T. Ray- 
mond, who hiul won distinction during 
the Civil War. Had there been an 
opportunity, there can be no doubt 
that to his standard had rallied 
as valiant a body of men as responded 
to the call of duty in the trying days of 
a generation before. Among the com- 
panies of this central regiment might 
have been mustered the fine body of 
young men who gave in their names 
to Sergeant Harry S. Putnam in the 
hopes that a place might be found for 
them, but this plan, too, proved 
abortive. 

Had the scope of the volume per- 
mitted, it had been a pleasure to 
enlarge on the concerted efforts of re- 
ligious and secular bodies to further 
the great object of making happy, as 



far as possible, the hi>nies which were 
lonesome on account of soldiers gone, 
rerhajis there was not a pul])it in 
\\'orcester from which was not heard 
repeatedly the re(|uest for funds to 
help on the good cause, an<l it should 
be stated that, inxariably, the re- 
sponses were cjuick and generous. 
Ever\' charitable organization set at 
work all its activities to helji. There 
were societies formed for the express 
pur]50se of aiding the soldier and hi.s 
family, but the records are lost in the 
haste with which the past is obliter- 
ated. The Red Cross, world-wide in 
its usefulness, had its branches in 
Worcester churches, and in the last of 
.\ugust. a central organization was 
effected and considerable money was 
forwarded to Miss Clara Barton for 
distribution. Of this latter body 
scarcely more can be foimd to-tlay 
than that its President was .\lfred S. 
Roe and its Treasurer E. ]. Mc.Mahon. 
and that its contributions amounted 
to nearly three hundred dollars. 

The hook itself is the result of many 
fa\drs rendered liv those interested, 
and to them, one and all, thanks arc 
returned. While the names of those 
who ha\e aided in various ways are 
legion and thus hardl\- to be enumer- 
ated, it does a|)iH-ar desirable to 
mention specialh' certain ones whose 
assistance particularly furthered the 
enterprise ; among these should be 
named Captain E. G. Barrett, S. E. 
Cla])]) and Joseph T. Lafiamme of A 
Companw whose daily records ac- 
counted for their period of service; in 
C Company much help was had from 
Captain !■". L. Allen, from the letters 
anil diaries of Lieutenant .\. C. King, 
Sergeant W illiam E. Barton, Corporal 
C. T. Eldridge and Henry J- Greene; 
the active assistance of Captain C. S. 
Holden in H Company, with that of 
Seroeants H. C. Young and C. E. 



6 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 

Smith, alons;- with the diaries ami let- uiitiriii,^- eitorts of citizens. >vhile the 
ters of Sergeants C E. Monroe. U. U. written and printed records of the 
Jordan, Corporal A. 11. Scott, Willis '■Emmets." as jireserved by Mr. M. B. 
("deason and Allie Kim1)all. rendered Eand). in the writin.sj of the late W'il- 
the •■Wellington" story piis>ihle; the Ham J. Tansey, alon^- with the price- 
faithful attendance nf Captain Moy- less compilations of Mr. Richard 
nihan ami Lieutenants Hurley and ( )'l'"Iynn. made the home efforts mem- 
McCann of the "Emmets," at repeated rirahle. In arrangino- the matter pre- 
readinsjs. is remembered gratefully, liminary to the story of the ■■Em- 
while the Cuban letters of Musicians mets," the writer acknowledges his 
\. T. Skerrett and I'eter I- . Sullivan, obligations to Dr. George McAleer for 
along with the co-operation of Ser- valualile suggestions. 
geant J. j. Corli>s. in many ways The roster of L'olonel E. R. Shum- 
helped along the project. way Cam]) is taken from the books in 
The profuse illustrations in the the keeiiing of Secretary A. F. 
Vfdunie must excite remark. The same Wheeler, and he. too. i.s entitled to the 
had not 1)een possible without the as- gratitude of all interested, 
.sistance of many people, among whom Xo one can regret more than the 
shouhl be mentioned H. C. (irover, writer the fact that every meml)er of 
whose war sketches are admirable; the tour companies is not reiiresented 
the cameras of Sergeant Young and "i the following jiages. that readers 
I'Ted r. Dean contributed no little to might know how their soldiers looked, 
the a])pearance of these jiages. while Earnest efforts -were made to secure 
the generosity of Colonel \'. E. Pierce the portrait of each man. Letters were 
of the Second Regiment adds interest written, many miles were traveled and 
to the volume. Captain P. L. Rider, ;>11 honorable means were taken to get 
by the lo.-m of cuts and data furnished, t'le jiiclures. but in many cases with- 
t-nli\t-ned many pages. Thanks aKo out success. There is little doubt that 
are due to the Wijrcester Hoard of some xeterans will l)e disappointed at 
Trade for the use of half-tones, pre- t'le non-appearance of their sem- 
pared when the first part of the work blances here, but such will have only 
was running in the Magazine; to the themsehes to blame. The preparing 
Worcester I'Aening ( iazette for plates "f the story was pla_\- com])ared with 
made during the war period, and to '''e work necessary to obtain the illus- 
F.ditor 1). P. Toomey of Houahoe's tralions. 

Magazine, foi- the loan of eugr;i\-ings Such as it is, the story with its em- 

in his possession. Lieutenant Me- bellishments goes f.irlh to the friemis 

Cann's collection of idiotos, with th.ise •""' ''^''^itives of the men who faltered 

of j. j. C.rliss and E. R. Parker, ""I in the path of duly .an<l in .so acting 

ri-llecteil credit upon the cit\' which 
niu-tured them. an<l to these men. 
whether here deUing in the callings of 
peace or having crossed the great di- 
vide are waiting in the realms of bliss, 
this account of their de\otion. action 



aided not a little. 

In preparing the sketch of the home 
work of Worcester, the writer is 
under great obligations to Mr. Hal- 
leck P.,-u-tlelt, .Mr. C.-irl P.onney and 

Mrs. William L. Robinson for the use .,„,, trinniph is ,le,licated 
of records in their ki-e])ing, the same .VEERED S. ROE 

chronicliui.; in a faithful m;inner the March, 1905. 



Worcester in the 
Spanish War 

CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A, 2ND REGIMEN 1, M. V. M. 



[Though the origin of the company was owing to pohtics, all questions of pohtici in the com- 
position and management of the City Guards long since disappeared. In 1S40, when the 
campaign for the t^residency was run, on one side, along the lines of '"Tippecanoe and Tyler too." 
and hard cider attained a prominence never hefore held, the rival Whigs and Democrats of the 
Light Infantry became almost belligerent towards each other, and. in the excess of their rancor, 
the Whigs withdrew, all save the Captain, D. Waldo Lincoln, and proceeded to organize a mili- 
tary company whose appreciation for W. H. Harrison and accompanying beverages knew no 
qualification. From the start the comi)any won a popular position and has ever held it, though 
to-day not one member in fifty among tlie active, veteran and honorary members coulil tell the 
real reason for its beginning. 

The first Captain was George Bowen, and his successors to date have been (jeorge llnbbs, 
Leonard Pool, George B. Conklin, L. Lincoln Newton, Edwin Eaton. Charles W. Longley. John 
M. Goodhue, George H. Ward, A. B. R. Sprague, R. H. Chamberlain, Joseph H. Titus. 
W, H. King, E. R. Shumway, George H, Cleveland, Wni. D, Preston, Wni. .•\. Condy and Edwin 
G. Barrett. When the War of the Rebellion came, the company, under the command of .-X. li. 
R. Sprague, went out in the three months' service as a part of the Third Battalion of Rillcs. 
Later, nearly every member saw service in some capacity throughout the struggle. Few, if any, 
organizations furnished more commissioned officers for loyal troops, and the record from the 
beginning of the war is a proud one. 

The organization of the company was in September, 1840, and on the 19th day of that month 
the first parade was made. Its first encampment was in the fall of the year 1840, in Worcester, 
and its second the year following, in West Boylston. Its reputation for proficiency in drill was 
early gained and has been ever retained. It was present at the dedication of Bunker Hill Monu- 
ment, June 17th, 1843, did guard duty mi that auspicious occasion, and heard the words of Web- 
ster as he gave his immortal address. 

Of the original roll, only the Hon. Julius L. Clarke of Newton and Mr. David J. Baker of 
Worcester survive.] 



RDAF the early days when 
the frontier town of Wor- 
eester was e.xpected to re- 
turn lier qtiota to rejjel In- 
iliaii attacks, down throtioh 
h'reneh and Indian wars, 
tliat (d" the Re\-olntion and 
later eneonnters, the town 
and city has ever heen 
ready to render a g'ood accnunt of it- 
self. The \\'ar of tlie Reht-llion was not 
so far away but that nienmries of 
it were fresh in the ptiblic mind, 
and the militia of the ISay State 
was largely composed of men whose 




fathers had seen ser\ ice in the days of 
l86[ and '6^. Long hefnre the final 
order was isstied. the (itiestion nf active 
ser\-ici' liad heen discussed in all the 
armories id' Massachusetts, and there 
appeared to he onl_\- one >enrnnent. viz., 
that 1)1 a desire to take a hand in end- 
ing Spanish rnle in .\merica. Xot 
a man in the militia coiild remeniber 
the (Ia\- wheii there was not some 
troidde in Cuba, and the conviction 
was dee]) and widespread that the 
L'nited States would e\'entnall}' have 
to go to the resctte of the strtiggling 
patriots in the Pearl of the .\ntil]es. 



WORCESTER IX THE SPAXISII 




Capt. Edwin C. ]!akk 
Moses H. Tisdell. Secon 



COAIMISSIOXED OFFICERS. COMI'. 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



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It is just possilole tliat the surcharged 
condition of the atmospliere added zest 
to otherwise monotonous drill, fur the 
boys were beginning to think that 
something might come of the exerlast- 
ing handling of firearms, the unlimited 
facings, marchings, and devotion tc~> 
tactics generally. At the same time, it 
must ever redound to the credit of 
American soldiery that ^•ery few men 
were anxious to go simply for tlie sake 
of carrying guns with the intent of 
shooting some one. It was a distin- 
guished Frenchman who said, more 
than one hundred }'ears ago. "In Amer- 
ica no men are soldiers by trade. Init 
men of all trades are soldiers." These 
militiamen were ready to bear their 
part in helping rid an oppressed por- 
tion of humanity of its burden, e\'en to 
the extent of risking their own li\-es in 
doing it. 

However, while to the praise of our 
men the foregoing is true, there was 
needed some overt act, some blood- 
curdling deed, to kindle the fire which 
had been laid so long. The spark was 
afforded when, during the night of Feb- 
ruary 15, in the harbor of Havana, the 
United States ironclad, the Maine, was 
blown up. It was the crowning igno- 
miny of the century, an act fitly supple- 
menting the barbarous rule of Spain in 
the Western Continent, and one which 
immediately welded into a compact 
mass North and South, making every 
American desirous of wiping out a des- 
potism which would countenance such 
a diabolical deed. Every man capal)le 
of bearing arms seemed like a grey- 
hound straining at his leash, needing 
only its severing to spring ujion the 
foe. While some people might flatter 
themselves that the outcry was wholly 
owing to the desire to fight for Cuba. 
in their heart of hearts they knew full 
well that from the murky waters of 



that i.slaud liarbor there was a never- 
ceasing moan. "Avenge me," and the 
cry. "Remember the Maine," after six 
years filled with their own history, has 
not ceased to re-echo. 

"When the splendid Maine went down, 

.'\nd we saw our brothers drown. 

Then a flood of sudden tears 

Changed the smould'ring wrath of years: 

.-\nd. above their Cuban grave. 

We vowed to see our banner wave." 
April 19, a momentous day in Massa- 
chusetts history, saw Congress pass an 
act warranting the declaration of war 
bv the President, and the same was 
signed the following da\-. Then fol- 
lowed, on the 23d, the call for 125.000 
troops, of which numl)er the ([uota for 
Massachusetts was four regiments of 
infantry and one of heavy artillery. 
April 28: Ciovernor Roger Wolcott 
called out the militia of the State, and 
preparations to com])l_v were imme- 
diately afoot. \\'orcester was the 
proud possessor of four companies of 
infantry and one of artillery. The 
Emmet Guards constituted Company 
G of the 9th Regiment, while the other 
three companies belonged to tlie 2d. 
Those were stirring times, and lo many 
a home the call came with all the 
emjihasis that I'.yron deiiicls in the 
immortal night before the Battle of 
Waterloo. Playing war was done, and 
oiu" l)o\-s were soon to know what the 
actual was like. 

In obedience to a regular summons, 
the members of Company A assembled 
in their Armory rooms Friday evening, 
April 29, to ascertain what the attitude 
of the men would be in regard to the 
call. It was a well-attended meeting, 
and. long before the nominated hour 
had arrived, the rooms were crowded 
by the soldiers and their friends, and 
one spirit seemed to actuate the crowd. 
At precisely 8.15 p.m. Captain Edwin 
G. Barrett called the gathering to order, 



10 WOKCKSTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 

and requested the withdrawal of all was appointed to look after the com- 

those not belonging to the coni])any. pany property during its absence, and 

After a brief setting forth of the pur- the further nrder was read directing 

pose for which the meeting was called. every man to report at 7.30 a.m. Tues- 

remarks from others were asked for. day. May 3. in heavy marching order, 

and the first to respond was Sergeant Following adjournment, each man pro- 

W. H. riummer. who. in a ringing ceeded to look after his own belong- 

speech. urged the men to volimteer as ings. and to discuss the probable dispo- 

a companv and to follnw the Hag sition of the regiment (in its departure, 

wherever it might lead. He t.)uched M.indav foll<iwe<l with about the same 

the right chord, for his words were re- situation, for the victory of Dewey, the 

ceived with cheers, and the men were da}- bef<:ire in Manila Harbor, had not 

ready to v<ihmteer at once. However. then been heralded, but the next day 

words from others in a similar vein fol- was all aflame with the wondrous story 

lowed, after which the Captain called of Dewey and the reMdts of the first 

for a rising vote upon the great cpies- naval battle fought with modern ap- 

tion. and, be it said to the everlasting pliances. 

credit of the ni-Miibers. every man rose There was no one in \\ (ircester who 

in the affirmative. did not wish a bright, beautiful day in 

So much for the altogether, the vote which to see the boys depart, but with 
when men are inspirited by each other; characteristic weather fickleness. Tues- 
then followeil the more trying ordeal. day dawned rain\- and dismal. ( )nly 
as each man was called into the private the glorious new^ from Manda saved 
room of the nou-commis>ioned officers. the day from downright gloom. Many 
where, in the ])re>euce of the Captain, a time has the city risen above tempo- 
and Company C/lerk, Corporal R. L. rary troubles, and this case proveil to 
Allison, he was asked to make lii^ per- l>e no exception. Red. white and blue 
sonal decision, and again there was no bedecke<I the buildings, and Main 
flinching, for every man was ready to Street looked as it must have appeared^ 
])tit rlowu his n;ime. The moments, so many years before when the sons of 
as the interviews |n-ogressed, were Worcester were (le]>arting for the 
anxious ones to the men. and it was a Southland. Kvery available inch of 
long breath of exidl.-iliou that followed slau.ling room was occupied by those 
the final announcement. h'or reasons who were bound to see their boys 
which seemed sufficient to himself march \>v. Moisture, not even ram. 
Captain I'.arrett refused to accept four coidd dampen such ardor, and the pn.- 
men, reasons in no way rellectiug u|)on grauune of departure was carried ou: 
them, InU which were oiniously just as if the sim had shone his bright- 
worthy of consideration. .\,,t till I 1.33 est. The .Vrniory at the api)ointed 
ji.m. did the uu'eting cud. ;uid then the hour was filled with the members of 
time was none too long, lor it was the the three companies who were that 
most important assend)ling of tin- uk prning to say ■'good-by to it for they 
(iuanls since 1861. knew not how long, il might be for- 

Suiiday, May I. tlu' members assem- e\ er. It was ipiarter ])ast nine when 

bled again to lr;msact fiirlher business, into the drill-she. 1 walked His lb. nor 

looking to the near <lepart lire l"or scenes .Mayor Dodge and the Rev. .\linon 

of hostilif.-. .\ committee of veterans (.unnison, D.D. An earnest and 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY 



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if- 



tdiichiiii^' |>ra\cr was oflcrcd l)v tlie 
latter, and remarks of an ajjpropriate 
character were niaile \)v ^^ayl)^ Rufus 
r.. D.Hl-e. Jr. Interested onloDkers of 
the incident were ( ienerals .\. R. R. 
S])rai;'nc and Rnliert Chainherlain. both 
of thcni \eteran members (it the cum- 
pany. 

The hne ni()\-od away, led l)y a sipiad 
of jxTlicemen. each one of -wlnun had 
been a soldier in the Kebelliim. Then 
came l!atter\- 1'. Hand, and the grizzled 
ranks of the I irand Arnu' of the Repub- 
lic followed, for I'ost lo had been 
assioneil the honor of the right of the 
line. Jsons of \'eterans. and surxdvors 
of the ( )ld Tith Regiment of 1861, 
marched next. There were carriages 
containing infirm \'eterans of the G. A. 
R. and of the several companies: then 
came the I'olytechnic boys, and finally 
the chief part of the e\ent. xdz., the 
departing companies. .\. H. and C. in 
order, with Lient.-Col. Edwin R. 
Shumwa\- and Major Harry H. I'air- 
banks riding at their head. The\- had 
been seen in march and drill many and 
manv a time, but how nnnierotis were 
the beholders who were willing to 
aftirm that they had ne\er really seen 
them l)efore. Such is the dilTerence 
between the actual and the seeming. 

So adown Main .Street, with scarcely 
mo\dng space, the gallant companies 
marched, the band playing .\uld Lang 
Svne till, for very pity's s.ake. the strain 
was changetl to the more lively one of 
Yankee Doodle. 'I'he southern limit 
of the parade was Myrtle Street, just 
be\-ond the I'ost ( )ffice. and thence 
through it and b_\" Southbridge the loop 
was made back to Main Street and by 
the Citv Hall, where the grand review 
was had by the Mayor and many con- 
spicuous citizens. In honor of the day 
the no-school signals had l)een rung, 
and Young America of both se.xes was 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPAXISH WAR. 



cxcry where in e\i(k-ncc, determined 
that notliin.y; that cuuld l)e dnne shonld 
be lacking to make separation memo- 
rable. 

The cnjwds thron,c:ed to the station 
and n]) to the very car doors, where the 
good-l)ys were spoken, an<l the train 
mo\'ed otT for the familiar eam|)ing 
grounds of South iM-anungham. The 
trip was a short and uneventful one. 
and the transferral from the cars to the 
ground was soon effected. (~)\ving to 
the deeds on the first of May the new- 
camp very fittingly assumed the name 
of Camp Dewey. .\',i time was lost, 
and after a dinner provide<l hv Caterer 
Yeaw, the ( iuards were tlie first to 
api)ear before the surgeon for his 
examination. The tests to which the 
men were subjected proved to l:)e 
unusually severe, hence many failed to 
reach the standard, and many a would- 
be patriot was obliged to f,,ld his 
blanket and dei)art for Ikjuic. In Com- 
pany A no less than ele\en men were 
rejected, th..ugh on a re-examination 
three of these men were taken back. 
The inability of jd Lieut. F. H. Lucke 
to pass the ordeal, on acci>unt of his 
eyes, was [jarticularly regretted. 

Then came the first night in camp. 
The weather was cold, and rain a sorry 
comforter. .\ot all the dreams of that 
long night are recorded. 1uit it is safe 
to say that many ..f them ])ictured 
scenes of pleasure and happiness on 
which waking e}-es were n<it to rest for 
niany a long da\-. 

rile roster of the com])any as it left 
Worcester was as follows : 

Captain. Edwin G, Barrett. 
First Lieut., Moses H. Tisdcll. 
Second Lieut.. Frederick H. Lucke. 
ScrKcant. Herbert W. Wi.ods, 
Wni. fL Plummcr, 
Walter H. .A.liison, 
Edward R. Kiedl. 
" Charles A. Poland. 



Corporal. Elbridge B. Sawyer, 

James T. Cruikshank, 

Horace L. Ware, 

.Archie F. Murray, 

John G. Hagberg, 
Musician. Frederick C. Gagnon. 

Privates. 
George E. .Allison, George Jones, 
Hubert E. Austin, Robert A. Lohnes, 

Herbert A. Ballon. Julius H. Lowell, 
Chas. .A. Barton, Jos. T. Lartamme, 

Jos. A. Bergeron, Chas. A. Lamberton, 

Jacob Bieberbach, David D. McTaggart, 

Jos. H. Boardman, Arthur C. McGee, 
Walter Burkhardt, Win. E. Moody. 

Wm. E. Cardin, Wni. H. Morse. 

Samuel E. Clapp, Edward J. Power, 

Jas. A. Cole, William W. Rice, 

Benj. Cooi>er, Wm. E. Sherman, 

Win. G. Crnwell, W. E. Schofield. 
Thos. R. Dnnd, Wm. G. Standish. 

Frank L, Fairl)anks, Quincy F. Thomas, 
Chas. A. Fischer, Alex. G. Thomson, 

Geo. L. Forest, Geo. M. Thomson, 

Ernest B. Hall, Ingwald E. Torkelson, 

Fred R. Hayes, Reinhard .-V. Torkelson, 

.Arthur L. Heyward, Wm, A. Traver. 
Wm. .\. Hinchley, Samuel .A. Wallace, 
Leroy C. Hinckley, Peter N. White. 
Horace K. Hobbs, 

Rex'eille souudeij prompth' at 6 
o'clock in the morning of the first day 
in camp, and little else than the results 
of the physical exaiuinatioiis occupied 
the minds of the \olunteers. Idle tests 
were finished tliis day and resulted 
in the rejection eif three more men. 
To serve on guard detail, Companv .\ 
furnished sixteen men. The rain of 
the preceding day had cleared away, 
but the air was cohl and raw. There 
was no drill, and Captain I'.arrett left 
for \\'orcester to secure recruits for the 
\acaiit jdaces, since the full comple- 
nu'ut of seventv-seveii men must be 
had. 

The Ca|jtain returned on the 5th with 
recruits who, with a single exception, 
jiassed the examination, and in the 
afternoon a vote was taken by the com- 
I)any to fill the vacancy made by the 
rejection of Lieutenant Lucke. Ser- 



CITY r,r.\Rns, co.mpanv 



\:i 




A. TN Cami- II 



iL^caiit W. n. 1 'luninuT had reason to 

111- prdiid I if his staiichiiL;' ainonaf liis 
fclliiws when tlu- cKx'tiMn rcsullcd in 

lis nnaniiniiiis chiiici.-. The tirsl drill- 

hl;' in canip was dune (in tliis dav. 

riic weather was nut i(h'al f( ir camp 

ife, since rains were fre(|uent and tlic 
winds were tlecidedly Arctic iti their 
temperatnre. All were pleased at the 
new Lientenant's successfnl passing of 
the tests leading to his commission, 
while the realities of life apjieared in a 
sndden attack i if illness ( m the part of 
line (if the priwites, and he was sent 
'\\ home Id Worcester: thungh Private 
Austin recovered he (lid not go with 
the company, ^^'ith warmer air and a 
dress parade on Saturday, the 7th, a 
degree of cheer liegan to pervade all 

learts. 
Camp Dewey's first and imly Sun- 
i}', s(T far as the Secund Regiment 
was concerned, was (ThsL'r\-ed as an 
actual dayof rest. Chaplain J. C. W'ell- 
wiKid held a service in the mess hall, 

ut the greater part of the passing 
hiiiu's was given to consideration of 
the pnil)a1)Ie disposition of the regi- 
ment Massachusetts heing on the 
"Ceaii. and a large part of her coast- 

wellers suffering fn^im the severest 
irm of Spaniardphcjbia. it was deemed 

robalile that all the furces nf the Coin- 
nionwealth \\i luld be retained for her 

iwn defense, in which case the Second 
wmild ddulitless be happily located in 
^' ime line of the exposed cities: and 
w hat fancies the boys had of the possi- 
liilities (if .a summer b_\- the seaside! 
Little did they know of what was 
already written on the near-by pages 
of the \-(ilnme reserved b_\- Fate. 

Monday, the ()th. ushered in a regu- 
lar round of drill parade and camp 
dut\-. ( )n this day the complete 
descripti\e list of e\-ery man was made 
out, and the whole com])an_\- signed the 



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CITY GUARDS, COM PAX V A. 15 

United States A'ohinteer inuster-mll. nwn resources. Already, niider iiistruc- 
The soldiers clidn't know it. hut mat- tii.ns. the caterer had hern narnnvinsj 
ters were cnniint;' to a head rapidly. flu- ran^e i >t tahle display. 'I'ahle- 
Tuesday proved to lie the .^reate-t cloths and napkins disappeared and the 
day yet in this new chaiiter of Guards' nu-nu was shorleuin- up .<;radnallv. 
history. .-\.t 9.50 a.m., the company that, when the change came, the shock 
ceased to lie a part of the State INIilitia mil.;-!!! not he too rude, 
and was mustered into the volunteer ( )n the 1 1 ih, reveille ino\ed uj) a half 
service of the United States by Lieu- iKntr, disttnd)ins' soldierly dreams at 
tenant E. AI. \\'ea\'er, detailed by the 5.30. Caterer C. S. Yeaw served his 
^^'ar Department for this duty. .Vn last breakfast, and then came the 
earlier order had assembled the com- weighty resiionsibility of selectini^ 
pany in its street, whence it had men for the kitchen stpiad, and the lots 
marched across the ])arade-ground to fell upon Privates Mills, Lamberton, 
the immediate vicinity of the flag-staff. Hays, (ireen, Standish and Schofield. 
from whose tip was flying the Star- The new cooks prepared their first 
spangled Banner, Under its folds. meal at noon and were ready to ofifer 
with uncovered heads and with up- their hungry comrades beefsteak, fried 
raised right hands, each man repeated bacon, baked potatoes, fried onions, 
the oath which bound him to two bread and cofi'ee. The afternoon 
years of faithful service to the national brought from \\'orcester Mavor 1\. 11. 
government, unless sooner discharged. Dodge, jr., and the mililar\- comiuiltec 
If there had been an}- lacking of appre- of the city gcivernment. Su|)|ier's bill 
elation of the imiKjrtance of the step of fare dwindled to hash, with bread 
which the men were taking, this act and coffee, for the dinner lavishness 
revealed the full magnitude of the part coidd not be expected at e\ er\- meal, 
they were about to play. It was no It is fully time for taps when an order 
round of cam.p frolic upon wdiich they is recei\ed directing the regiment to be 
were to enter. In the afternoon. Cap- ready to lea\e cami) on the following 
tain Barrett read the .Articles of War da_\-. This news l)anished all thoughts 
to the company, and upon Quartermas- of sleep from the camp, and letter- 
ter-Sergeant C. A. Poland were laid writing to friends at home is the order 
also the duties of commissary. The of the night. .\ summer b_\- the sea- 
day closed in a memorable manner, for side gives pdace to the knowledge that 
at the head of each company street had .._^„._.,,. ^,„„,„ g^^.n, „, dj^j^.. 
been placed piles of wood, which the j^ j,,^^ regiment's iunnediate destina- 
boys proceeded to use tor camp tires. ^j,,,,^ .^„,, ,„, ,„,^, ^„^,^^. ,^,_.,^^. ,^^^,^,^ 



around which they gathered, and with 
songs of home, love and war, passed 
the hours awav. 



further he might go. 

riiough reveille came an hour and a 

half earlier than the dav before, it 

With entrance ui.)on the U. S. service , , r "-t-' j * 

. ' awakene<l \er\' tew. 1 ired natures 

came a chancre from rations prepared ^ . ' , , 1 "11 t. 

^ "^ ' sweet restorer, balmv sleejx had not 

bv a caterer tei the more soldier-like , . r 1 1 " • .1 i 

shut main- evelids during the prcced- 

manner cif havino- a companv cook. ■ , ' " , .- •' .1 ■ 1 i- 

'^ i - mg hours, and. tor once m their soldier 

Accordingly three days' rations were ij^'-^g^ ^i^^. ,-csounding bugle disturbed 
given out, and it was understood that them very little. There was much to 
the next day would jnit them on their do in packing u]>, eating breakfast and 



1() 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




Ei-T. F. H. LucKE. Firs 

COMMISSIONEn OFFICERS, CITY CUARHS 



T. M. H. TlSDELL. 



1896. 



mrikint;' final arrant;cnu-iits for (U']iart- 
iwv. At S n'cliick tliL- tents were 
struck, .and then followeil till mion an 
O])])ortunit y to \isit with friends, wdio 
were present in lar.ne ninnhers, 'Idle 
telephone wire tn \\'i)rcester was kept 
hilt hy iiffieers and men in their anxiety 
to say "ti^ood-hy" to listeners more 
than tweiitx- miles away. Strange that 
science and war should so kindly 



lilend! At 2 ]i.ni., in obedience to the 
a.ssembh call, the res^'iment fell in and 
was rex'iewed hy His Excellency the 
( lo\-ernor, Roger \\'olcott, always an 
impressi\e fi,s;"ure, nex'cr lookeil better 
than when he a|)peared on this occa- 
sion. I-'ollowini;' the review, a hollow 
sipiare was formed, and in a most 
eftecti\e manner the (governor gave 
each officer his commission. That 



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17 



little march from his station to the 
< io\-cnior's hand was the most impor- 
tant that many of thoe otticcrs had 
e\er taken. L'ertainly the most that 
was possilfle was made of the oppor- 
tunity. 

Time tiew swiftly, hnt it was not till 
5.40 [).m. that the line was forme<l for 
the march to the station, and tlu' last 
sight of the "old camp-ground" was 
coupled \vith the figure of Caterer 
Yeaw, who was actually in tears over 
the going away of his hoys. Again 
the Grand .\rmy of the Repuldic acts 
as escort for the later generation of 
soldiers, since it is Middlesex Post, No. 
163, that takes the right and leads the 
way. The whole township of Fra- 
minghani couhl not furnish the many 
thousands of people who crowd and 
jostle that they may catch just a 
glimpse of the departing volunteers. 
These masses of beholders have come 
from distant points, that they may 
once more see their lo\ed ones and 
take the parting, possibly the final, 
farewell. Leave-taking of soldier 
boys on their way to actual warfare 
has ever been the saddest of partings, 
and it is no mark of weakness if tears 
dim the eyes of the man in uniform as 
well as of those of the friends who 
remain. The good jieople of South 
Framingham had erected, near the 
station, so that the line would pass 
under it, a beautiful arch on wdiich 
were the appropriate words. "God be 
with you till we meet again," a sen- 
timent to which e\en the most 
thoughtless could not resist respond- 
ing "Amen." 

The station itself beholds a \ast 
array of humanity, military ami civil, 
but all intent on the departure of this 
regiment of Massachusetts men and 
boys. The soldiers themselves are 
especially jubilant over the thought 



that theirs is the very first regiment of 
\dlunteers to be thus ordered away, 
and many are noting the happy coinci- 
dence with the great event of .April, 
1861, when the Massachusetts Si.xth 
was the first e<|uippcd organization to 
[ilace itself between the government 
and its foes. ( )nce more the bared 
arm and firmly-grasped sword, ever 
visible upon the escutcheon of the Hay 
State, were significant. Naturally .the 
boys had hoped that their wav s<juth- 
ward would be \ia Worcester and 
Springfield, so that the folks at home 
might see them in their regimentals 
and that more of the loved ones might 
say "good-by ;" but it had been ruled 
otherwise, and the route selected was 
that by the way of Newport and the 
Sound. 

The last farewell is spoken, and at 
7.45 ]).m., amid cheers and waving 
haiulkerchiefs, the long train moves 
out and takes its way towards Rhode 
Island. Those parting words and ten- 
der embraces had produced a quieting 
effect, and many a loyal heart. Ijeneath 
his coat of blue. reali7.e(l, as the man 
had ne\er done befort\ just how father 
and mother felt when they separated 
so long ago. Thus do we all get by 
actual experience what Mtherwise we 
should never know. Then, loo, the 
night hour had its effect, and the leave- 
taking was sadder than it would have 
been at noon or in the early morning. 
.Supper, consisting of hardtack and 
canned roast beef, was served en route. 
All along the way every village was 
astir to see the soldiers, and with wel- 
coming shouts and red fire galore, the 
people attested their admiration and 
regard. Not till 10.30 p.m. is Newport 
reached, but even at this late hour the 
people are out to see the first regiment 
arrayed to combat the Spaniard. It is 
the magnificent steamer Plj-mouth of 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



the Fall River Line that is tn liear the 
bovs to New Yrirk. and if these same 
soldiers could have had their clu.iice 
the}- would not ha\-e chosen ntherwise, 
for there was a siijnificance in the 
name that apjiealed to e\ery l(j\al 
Massachusetts heart. 

At 1 1. 30. iir just a half hour before 
niidniiL^iit. the stauncli xes.sel m(i\-es 
awav frcim the dock, and the men, 
weary from ihe excitement and ex'ents 
of the clay, early seek ccmxenient jdaces 
in which in l)est(.nv their effects and 
their tired l)odies. .Many 1 if these 
same Sdldiers as ci^■ilian^ had (iften 
gone o\er this route in former days. 
finding repnse in the finely finmisheil 
staterooms; mnv the\' were glad to 
take their re^t updii the .soft side of the 
floor with scant covering, though some 
lucky fellows had the privileges of 
excellent staterooms after the officers 
had all been jilaced. E\'idently the 
boat was the regiment's for the night. 
Fair weather. thnugh sumewhat 
windy, allowed the trip to be made in 
g(_i(id time and with nci untoward inci- 
dent. The morning of the 13th came 
early, for the steamer is moxdng along- 
one of the most fascinating routes in 
America, and to a large proportion of 
the men the scenes are entirel}- new. 
Evidently, the mission <>f the I'lymouth 
was well understood, for e\-ery ])assing 
ttig and steamer gave three greeting 
whistles, and the shores appeared black 
with people whose voices and handker- 
chiefs proclaimed their interest. While 
under the famous Brooklyn bridge, so 
intense was the sound, it verily seemed 
as though every whistle \'al\-e in the 
harbor were held wide ojien. 

The Plymouth reached her slip, or 
Pier No. 18, on the Hudson River side 
of New York at 8.13 a.m. Two hours 
are given to the unloading of baggage 
upon the wharf and then the next 



mo\-e in the jday is awaited. On the 
arrival of the transport Saratoga the 
men go aboard, and again pass around 
the foot of New York Island and touch 
at Pier 17. East River, where six con-i- 
panies. under Colonel Clark, land, leav- 
ing the remaining six under the com- 
man<l of Lieutenant-colonel Shuni- 
wa\-. and the balance of the day is 
gi\-en t(j taking on board su])i)lies. as 
directed by Captain Barrett. At 6 
<Vclock the .Saratoga moves out and 
dro])s anchor near Picdloe's Island, on 
which stands the statue oi Liberty 
luilightening the World. The Seventy- 
first Xew York was near by <mi board 
the Cit\- of Washington and the Sene- 
ca. The long wait here of forty-eight 
hours is remembered with anything 
but ideasure. Punks arranged between 
decks were not exactly luxurious and 
the air was something to breathe light 
if possible. Evidently. ni-i n-iore prepa- 
rations had been made for the recep- 
tion of the n-ien than would have been 
taken for a load of cattle. Those who 
could crowd (Uit on the deck slept there 
in the o|)en air. Xo particular fault 
was found with the fooil. It was while 
Ling here that the men learned what a 
l)oat steward could do for the comfort 
of men if well paid. Men paid as high 
as 15 cents for a glass of ice water, and 
pie — well, it ranged from 30 cents 
upward. Familiar faces were not un- 
known e\-en on the transport, and 
while at Pier 17. Harry Merritt. a for- 
mer member of the tinards, came 
aboard to see how his old comrades 
looked when on their way to real war. 
.\11 were glad to see him. 

( )n Saturday, the 14th. a change 
came over the spirit of the soldiers' 
dreams, for then the plan of going 
south by water was abandoned, and, on 
steaming to Jersey City, the men were 
soon transferred to the trains in wait- 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



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7'^ n^ 








APTAiN Uarreti AND Caterer Yeaw 

-Camp Dewev. 
Fall in for Rations — Lakeland. 



For the Stomach's 

Lakeland. 

Drawing Rations-La 

LakeMorton-Lak 



20 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 

ini;-. ami the imirnev south was hetjiin. traiisiiiittf<l froni Rel)elhiin sires to 
Anehnr had l)eL'ii weighed at 2 p.m.; .S]iaiiish War sons. The rations on 
the lanchnp: was effected at 4.30, and which the journey was progressing 
tlie Ixivs who had kept ipiick and were not u|) to the standard for hun- 
iihserx'ing e\es out fc)r the Sevent}- gr\ , \igorous young men. They were 
first New ^'ork rejoiced that Massachu- fair in quality, hut tlie cpiantity, ah! 
setts still had the preference and the there was the rub. The authorities had 
ri'dit of the line, for the Second landed forgotten wdiat hungry business rail- 
and rolled out of the station tirst. roading is. \\'hat might have done for 
There was the usual crowd of enthu- a seasick, ocean trip was not sufficient 
siastic people shouting their approval for the land excursion. However, the 
of the proceedings, and at i).30 p.m.. in stop at the ca|iital soon ended, and at 
three sections, the regiment was oft'. 7.50 a.m. the trains pushed along 
Colonel Clark, with Comi>anies K, (i, southward, over the same way taken 
R and D, had the first section; Major by the soldiers of 1861, viz., the Long 
Whipple, having L, E, M and I, was I'.ridge, and the first stop was in Alex- 
with the second, while Major Fair- andria. Here, too. Southern people 
banks took charge of .\, C, V and H in are ready to give real live Yankees the 
the third. Thev were not sleeping- heartiest kind of a greeting. .\t 
cars to which the men were assigned. Cherry Hill there was a wait of suffi- 
and close, cramped seats, though each cient length for those who wish to take 
man had one to himself, were not a bath in the nearby creek. The stop 
exactlv the thing for comfort, but all is to enable the second section of the 
managed to get some sleep, enough so regiment to come up. At Portico 
that they had little idea of -Philadelphia liou(piets are received in exchange for 
and Baltimore, through which they har(hack, each one giving that of which 
])assed during the night. Massachu- he had the most. If only some vet- 
setts was in better favor with the erau of the Rebellion could have been 
dwellers in that latter city than she along to describe the country through 
was in iSfii. which the train was passing! For 
Washington dawns on the sight of every stopping-place is fraught with 
the travelers at 5.20 a.m., and it did not memories of the fierce struggle of 
take long to disembark, for near at nearly forty years ago. Fredericks- 
hand was a bakerv, which, with ])ass- burg. Summit, }\Iilford, Clayton and 
ing milk w:igi>ns, makes an exceeding- Stony Creek in N'irginia, with Wel- 
!v hapiiv condiination. l-'resh bread, don in Xorth Carolina, are historic 
])ie, cake and milk afl'orded a breakfast names. In the latter city, supper was 
■ ■-ood enoU'di for any one. It is on rec- had, but the most enthusiastic recep- 
ord th:it one milkman, unwilling to sell tion was received in Selma in the old 
anv of his st(jck, not only trieil to drive Xorth State, where refreshments were 
oft', but, in lashing his horse to get served and l)oU(|uets were given, many 
awav, actuallv whi]>pe<l some of the of which had .scraps of paper attached, 
hungry blue-coated boys. Just how it Ijearing the words, "Remember the 
haiiiiened no one has tobl, but, strange Maine." I'ayetteville, N. C, is noted 
to say, that nulkman's cans ai)peared in passing, and I'dorence, S. C, where 
on th,- train after its departure. I'os- in the earlier days Uni<in men suft'ered 
siblv the science of foraging had been so horrildy in the detestable prison 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



21 



liicatcd there. ( )1(1 issues were forgot- 
ten in the supreme thouglit of the sub- 
ject (III which both North and South 
were agreed. No thoughts of former 
sufferings prevented the heartiest of 
greetings at every sto]i. The rotomac 
had marked the chvichng line between 
home and Southern weather, and from 
that point downward the cars were hot 
and filled with <hist. liut e\'en the latter 
could not hide from x'igilant eyes the 
beauties of the passing scenerv. 
Amid so much that was new few 
remembered that the dav was Sunday. 

The morning of the 15th finds our 
Worcester boys in Savannah. Ga., 
where hot coffee is served. Watches 
had to be set back one hour, owing to 
the difference in standard time. Still 
progressing steadily southward, the 
train passes through Marion. Dupont, 
Forest and Alexanderville, in Georgia, 
and Baker's Mills, Jasper, Livoar. 
High Spring, etc.. in Fb^rida, till Lake- 
land, the destination, is reached, at 11 
p.m., and the remainder of the night is 
passed upon the cars. The following 
day revealed scenes peculiar to the 
Land of Flowers. The soil looks like 
white sand. Long, gray moss hangs 
in great masses from the trees, while 
the forests seem to be coniposetl of 
scrubby pines. To many of the sol- 
diers the prospect was as strange and 
weird as it was. hundreds of years 
before, to Ponce cle Leon, when he 
here sought the fountain of youth. 
Lakeland, located in Polk County, in 
the western side of Florida and at the 
junction of two railroads, well deserves 
its name, for a large part of the coun- 
try, apparently, is under water. 

Though the earliest volunteers to 
arrive, the regulars were ahead of the 
Second, and the men of the Tenth Cax- 
alry, with their luirses. were much in 
evidence. Men of all shades of com- 



plexion crowded the streets of the 
small though bustling village. Soldier 
and citizen jostled each other in their 
respective occu|)ations. It was not till 
9 a.m. that the men left their trains 
and marched a short distance from the 
town, and on the shores of Lake Mor- 
ti>n pitched their tents. The trees, 
moss-laden, were tall, and thick 
enough to keep out the sun b}- da\- and 
the dew at night. Recognition of the 
changed climate was had in the substi- 
tution of brown canvas uniforms for 
the regulatiiin l)lue. .Scarcelv had 
camp been arranged than the bo\s 
sampled the clear waters of the lake in 
the way of much appreciated baths. 
The}- had not as yet thought of alli- 
gateirs. but when, one day, a big ten- 
footer showed his uglv jaws, swim- 
ming across the lake, till then a fa\-or- 
ite pastime, became decidedly unpop- 
ular. Colonel Embury Clark recalls 
the home State in giving to the newlj'- 
tented field the name, "Camp Massa- 
chusetts." 

Till May 30th this was the regimen- 
tal home. Hard work was not put 
upon the biiys too ipiickly. There was 
a bit of delay, that the new-comers 
might become acclimated and used to 
their surroundings: but regular camp 
hours and regulations were estab- 
lished. .\t first many letters were 
written home and much talking was 
done as to the future of the regiment. 
There was some drilling on the first 
day in caniji. and Captain I'.arrett was 
the verv first officer of the day. May 
lytli brought the latest news from 
home in the shape of the "Worcester 
Telegram." and the boys cheered 
tumultuously at the sight of the 
"("■ram." "Worcester's ( )nly," whose 
pages had never looked half so attrac- 
tive before. Later, resolutions of 
thanks were adopted for the daily gift 



WDKCESTICR IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




I-.. I. Christens 
W.M. II. Mnus 
[■•uti/K K, IIai 



K. A. TciRKui.s 
\\m. T. Turn-e 
Ernest I!. Ha 



I I. W. Davis. 
W. K. Johnson. 
.\rthvr C. Mill; 



ENLISTED MEN. COMr.WY .\. 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY 



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of fift}- copies. Camp is a favorite 
place for the townspeople to visit, 
and they never tire of making compar- 
isons between the Seventy-first Xew 
York and the Second, and SDmehow 
the Empire State appears tn suffer by 
the contrast. Gradually, the nun set- 
tle ddwn to a routine of drill and 
studv and such variations as fatii;"ue 
and other duty may afford. The cook- 
ing department is in the hamls of Pri- 
vates trills and Laml)erton. The for- 
mer had been a ])rospector in Montana 
and is no novice in his responsi1)le 
position. .All are loud in their ]iraises 
of the bread, biscuits, roast beef, 
mashed potatoes and coffee which they 
receive at stated intervals. I.u.\uries, 
however, come high, and lo cents is 
the regular price for a cube of ice four 
inches square, though eggs may be had 
at from 9 to 40 cents a dozen, the cost 
evidently ranging along the line of age 
in inverse ratio. 

The scarcity of fruit is a matter of 
considerable remark, and it was popu- 
larly thought that all that could be 
sold North had lieen sent there. I'.ut 
if there was no fruit, the same could 
not be said of bugs and insects. They 
abounded in all shapes and sizes. 
Laundry operations were hail in the 
river hard by. That the Hay State 
might maintain its long-deser\'ed rep- 
utation for well-informed soldiers, 
there was early established a school of 
the company and also one of the sol- 
dier. 

The first death in the regiment was 
that of Private Wesley S. Prass of 
Company 1. on the 21st. Naturally, 
the sad e\'ent made a deep impression 
on the men, who recognized thus how 
near they were to the grim destroyer. 
On the next day, funeral services were 
held by Chaplain Wellwood at y.30, 
and, with a detail from each comiiany, 



the remains were escorted to the sta- 
tion, where they w'ere |)laced in care 
of the express company for shij)- 
ment to Westheld, the late home of the 
deceased. After ta])s soundeil by 
Chief .Musician Richardson, the men 
mare]u'(l >ailly l)ack lo their eani]). 
W ilh willing hearts the boys ehip]>ed 
in to help pa\ the expenses home of 
the l>o(l\- of their comrade. 

The following is the tirst promul- 
gated order for the day's olxscrvance : 

A. ,M. I'. M. 

Reveille, - - 4.25 Dinner. - - l-'.oo 
Marcli, - - 4.55 Gii.nril ninnnt. 

Assembly, - - 5.00 1st call. - - 5.40 

Breakfast, - - 5.15 .Vssenihly, - - 5.4.^ 
Surgeon's call, 6.00 Retreat, istcall. 6.00 
1st Sergeant's .\sseml)ly 

call. - - 6.45 roll call, - - 6.05 

Drill, 1st call (Sat- Supper, - - 6.15 

unlay and Sun- Tattoo, - - 8.,lo 

day excepted). 7.00 Taps. - - g.oo 

.\ssenibly, - - 7. 05 

Recall, - - 9.30 

The first dress-parade came May 
20th, and won deserved praise. ft 
was had in the street adjacent to the 
camp and was followed liy a short 
street parade. fn the e\ening the 
batid of the Tenth I'. S. Cavalry Icol- 
t)red) gave a very en joyai)le concert. 
On the 29th came remembrances from 
home in the shape of a box of food for 
A. G. Thomson and C. A. Fischer, also 
the announcement that camp would be 
broken the next day. Tims it was at 
5.30 in the morning of the Northern 
Memorial day that tents were struck 
anil preparations for departure claimed 
ever\- hand. The next camping place 
for the Second is in Ybor City, a sub- 
urb of Tampa, and the traiti is left at 
4 ]i.m. Then comes a march of about 
one mile through the sand, a fatiguing 
and disagreeable trip. The sand was 
really ankle deep, and the water, 
brought through pipes laid on the top 
of the ground, though not at the boil- 



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WOKCESTKK IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



ing- iiitch. sometimes seemed to be not full of moisture. However, it takes a 
far from it. Xo dinner was served. deal t... completely phase a Yankee sol- 
and supper did not come till 7.T5. The dier, and these hoys of Company A 
new camp is pitched on the ed.^e of a were not without resources, for they 
wood, and on either side are regiments proceeded to use certain wood which 
of regulars. June ist gave the boys they found, in Iniilding a roaring fire, 
a taste of a Florida rainstorm, which around which thev disported them- 
flooded the streets ami tents. Xo selves, keeping, at least that side near- 
retreat was sounded. It was n,:,t nee- est the fire. toleraI>ly warm, and 
essary. June 4th was noteworthy, as through it all the men kept their tem- 
on that day Uncle Sam paid a month's per. They were growing philosophi- 
wages to his Massachusetts boys— cal. 

$15.60 per man— and they were ]ia|>py. The sun of the 7th of June was 
Orlo W. Davis is detailed for service shining upon the liroken camp. There 
in the U. .S. .\ml)nlance Corps. The was no reveille, for the men were 
next day Ybor City was i)Iaced under already up. P.reakfast's l)ill of fare 
martial law on account <,f a riot the was sh,.rt, only hardtack and coffee, 
night before. Many of the company an.l nothing was so much desired as 
obtained passes and went to Tamjia the command. -Forward." Every- 
to make purchases, or to send their thing has an end, and there came at 
money h.,nie. Though the day was last an end to tedious waiting, and at 
Sunday, everything was running wide 4.30 p.m. the lon.g-expected came. At 
"'^^''V 5 o'clock ranks are formed and the 
After a day of drill and regular re.giment marches awav from Ybor 
round of duty, at G p.m. came the City to the train, which transports our 
orders to l)reak camp and ])e ready tr, boys to Tampa, reaching the latter 
''-■=';'^' <'t '' oVIock. The order was place at 10 p.m. The boat for the 
quickly obeyed, and in an hour all reception of the soldiers was not in 
were prepared to march. Knapsacks readiness, hence another uncomf..rta- 
were discarded an.l the necessary bU- night f.>llowed, happilv the last on 
under-clothing, with blankets, rubber iq,,rida soil. Slee]. was had as best it 
blankets and shelter tents, a so-called could be found, on docks and in ware- 
horse collar was formed which was houses, in some cases the men ace. un- 
readily slung over the sh.>ulder. m. .dating themselves n. it .mlv t.. bales 
Ammunition b,.xes were .ipene.l and of merch; 



indise. but to the presence of 

soli, I f....d f.ir the enemy in the shape army mules as well. \\'hile militarv 

of |.irty-fi\e n.un.ls per man was life lays stress ..n many fine class ilis- 

issueil. Hut there is many a slip tincti..ns. it effectually erases .. tilers, 

'twixt cup an.l lip. for ., ..'cl.iek came. Still as these y.umg men ha.l not left 

and there w;is n.. si.gn ..f .leiiarture. c .mf. .rtable h..mes with the expecta- 

Ib.ur , -liter h.,ur passed, till finally the ti..ns . .f luxuries, they were bvno 

night haltingly went by an, 1 yet the means cast .1. .wn. 

men waite.l. They ha.l packL-,1 up all There was n.. necessity of telling the 

their .-ippli.anee-, f,,r c..mf..rt. They b.iys when the m..rning ,.f the Stii of 

<lare.l not imp;iek lest f..rwar.l com- June arrived. f..r their slund)ers had 

mands shouM Im.l them un],repare,l. n,.t been ..I that luxuri.ms character 

Tile ni.ght was very cl.l ,an.l the air that they were disp.)se.l to repose in 



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25 




VBOR CITY. FLORIDA. 



the arms of Morpheus one minute 
Ioniser than darkness lasted, hence 
they were up with the sun, and in many 
cases some time before. Tam]5a Bay, 
ahva\'s beautiful, never looked more 
lovely than under the rays of this 
morning's sun. Added to the Ijeauties 
of nature, were the works of man in 
the shape of many transports and war- 
ships at rest or in motion, but all there 
for the purpose of furthering the cause 
which has brought these Massachu- 
setts boys and thousands of others 
from their far-away homes. There is 
the accustomed round of early duties. 
and the full complement of "falling in" 
and "right dressing." marching hither 
and thither, till there finally C(inie> the 
welcome order for the ^d Ualtalion 
to go on board the Concho. No. 14. at 
2 o'clock p.m. The boat nuist have 
been rated as an omnibus, always ca- 
pable of receiving more, for already on 
board were the 4th U. S. Infantr\- and 
the 25th (colored) Infantrw "l^irst 
come, first ser\-ed," was the rule here 



as elsewhere, and for the latest comers 
there remained only the hold, which 
was below the water-line, and it was 
oh ! so hot ! For once in their lives, 
the soldiers realized what the Black 
Hole of Calcutta meant. I'resh air was 
scarce. an<l what little there was soon 
fouled. The old law of self-preserva- 
tion prevailed here, and it was a com- 
mon thing to find some gasping private 
with his body thrust into the o])ening 
of the great canvas tube down which 
the wind sails were supposed to fur- 
nish needed air. The impression one 
had at the sight was that of a human 
being entering the jaws of some giant 
constrictor. Of course, he ccnildn't 
stay there long, for some other ecjual- 
Iv suffering man would yank liim back, 
that he might get his place. Till that 
dav, many had had no adequate no- 
tions of Dante's Inferno. nor of the heat 
of Sheol. as rendered in the modern 
version. The bunks, extending from 
the floor to tjie ceiling, were three and 
five deep, according to location, and 



26 



WORCESTER IN THE SP.WrSlI WAR. 



the alleys, between tiers, were so nar- 
row that two men eoulil ])ass eaeh 
other ijnly hy erijwdins^'. (leneral 
Shafter with his immense tic;ure wmild 
ha\e stood no chance there. 

run liefore the full force of this heat- 
ed hole was realized, there was much 
to do in the way of loailint;- the trans- 
])ort with proxisions for the trip. .Vlso 
there hatl to he put on hoard all the 
outfit for L'uhan camps. It was a long' 
anti tiresome task, for some of the cars 
were rpiite a quarter of a mile awa^•. 
.\s usual, when there was work of this 
kind to he done. Captain I'.arrett \vas 
in charge, and hefore the same was 
over his 'N'ankee ingenuitv and nerve 
stood him anil his men well in hand, 
for. mounting a locomotive that ap- 
])eared to he hading an aimless exist- 
ence, he directed the engineer to mo\'e 
U|) and ilraw the cars down to the 
wdiarf. The dri\er at first demurred, 
saying he would just like to know who 
was rmniing things there an\\va\-. for 
first he was ordered to do one thing 
and then another, till he was all mixed 
up, hut our Captain, in his eoinincing 
way, made him heliex'e that the change 
of position was the proper thing, 
and the cars were brought where the 
trips becanu- much shorter, and Xew 
England's labor-saving ability was ex- 
emplified. W here all work with a will, 
much can l)e done, and the matter was 
all finally loaded and perspiration and 
backaches were speedily forgotten. 

\\'ith men and rations on board, the 
Concho steams out into the harbor, and 
as she mo\-es away there are Icjug and 
hearty rounds of applause from the 
shore a)iil from the other transports, 
loaded or wailing. The brass bands 
on the \essels ])lay popular airs, ami 
war does not seem to be such a 
terrible affair after all. Well out in 
the Ijay at .anchor, the transport wait.s 



wdiile ilarkness settles down on the 
(juard's first night upon the waters, 
liad as the quarters were, they were 
enjoyed at first, so wearied were the 
men fmni their marchings, lack of 
sleep, and the labors incident to the 
loading of the craft. Sleep closed every 
e\eliil till I o"clock in the morning of 
the oth. when there came a report that 
a S|ianisli fleet was at the entrance of 
the bav. The Armada of old could not 
ha\'e thrown the dwellers of southern 
hjigland into greater consternation 
than did this liaseless rumor the sleep- 




rm\\ 




ers in the dingy depths of the Concho. 
Wv the dispatch bc)at Fearless came 
an order directing the vessel back to 
the dock. Hack she went, and that 
she might enter the slip without 
wrenching oft' the coverings to the 
port-holes. the\- were all carefully 
closed. The eft'ect upon the interior 
nia\- be imagined. Wdiat had been 
dreadful, now became unendurable. 



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27 




lii iSI'I'l Al. TKSl'. I.AKi:i,A.\l 



All efforts to reach the deck were pre- 
\"ente(l l)}* a stalwart cnlcired sentinel, 
who, with his hayonet, had orders to 
kee]i all IjcIdw. S(i intense and stiflinj;' 
was the heat that men lost their 
senses and were dri\-en into delirium 
or unconsciousness. A.nain, Yankee 
wit helps out, for hy cimnivance lie- 
tween surq;eon an<l officers, it takes ten 
or twelve men to hel]) each man. over- 
come hy the heat, to the deck for re- 
covery. ]\y iudicimis management, 
the sufferers are all allowed again to 
lireathe the free air of heaven. ( )n 
further inspection, the surgeon de- 
clared the lower (|uarters unfit for oc- 
cupancy, and the men were permitted 
to bestow themselves on the upi>er 
deck, above the space allotted to the 
officers. The loss of bunks was not 
thought of in the luxury of air — just 
air, that is usuallv considered the most 
common and the cheapest of all neces- 
sities. All day the boat lay at the 
dock, and at nightfall came a batch of 
U. S. mail, ever welcome. The day's 
routine as ordered was as follows: 



.\ . M . 
Reveille, ist cnll, 5.45 
Roll call. 6.00 

Breakfast. 6.15 

Surgeon's call, 7.00 
First Serg't's call. 8. 00 
Co. inspection, 11.00 
Dinner, IJ.OO M 



Gn.inl mount, 1st 

call, 
.Assemlily, 
Retreat. 1st 
Rnll call. 
Supper. 
Tattoo, 
Taps, 



.^45 
4.00 
6.00 
6.05 
6.15 
8.00 
g.oo 



( )ne of the features of the inspection 
was the novel one of considering the 
feet of the men. .Some of the old "sore- 
toes" of the C'n'il War would have 
looked upon this as the raid<est tyr- 
annv, but lie that as it may the Massa- 
chusetts 2d started away with the John 
Wesley maxim, that cleanliness is next 
to Godliness, firmly fixed in mind and 
[iractice. Barefooted, the men were 
ranged in line, and literall}-, from head 
to foot, they were inspected. What 
would have happened to the unfortu- 
nate whose ])atterers could not pass 
muster is unknown, for no underpin- 
ning were found so untidy as to neces- 
sitate an order to "go soak your feet," 
though a frequent quiz among the boys 
was, "Are your feet clean ?" 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR 




I.EANIXC, LAKELAXD 



Tlie rations consist nf hanltack. 
canned l)akeil beans, "iirinie rnast 
lieef," and coffee. ddie heans were 
good, and their only failiui^' was their 
scantiness; the roast lieef was "])rime" 
onl_\- l)y name, like the "hut mince pie" 
of the western restaurant, which was 
neither liot nor mince. It will lie re- 
membered that, to the indignant gnest 
who, with appetizing memories of his 
early days, had ordere<l it. and finding 
himself confronted with a nomlescript 
bit of filled pie crust hail jirotested. the 
bnrly w.aiter said. "\'ou needn't get so 
Cocky, that's just its name." Water 
for drinking and culinar\- purposes is 
distilled sea-water, and a little of it 
goes a long way. I'idd. it could be 
used, but w.arm, it was positi\el\- nau- 
seating. In the "canteen." on ship- 
board, then- are two or three hundred 
bottles of lager, kept upon ice. and 
though they are held at J5 cents each, 
it does not take a boat-load of several 
hundred men a great while to unload 
the entire supply, and when the alter- 
native of n.auseating hot sea-water is 
considered, the most promiunced total 



abstainer could hardly blame these 
young men if the}- indiibed anvthing of 
a cooling nature. The recorded tribu- 
lations of l)i\es dift'ered oul\- in degree 
from those of these heat-famished 
boys, and the_\' bought not only lager, 
but were willing to ]iay the demanded 
price of from ten cents to twenty-five 
cents for a <lrink of ice-water. Though 
long an.xious to reach the ship's deck, 
the boys were not finding life on "the 
briny" any too halcyon. 

June 10 was iiiiteworth}' in that at 
5.45 p.m. came an order to nio\-e away 
fri>m the wharf, all danger from Span- 
ish fleets ha\'ing vanished. Also it is on 
record that the cook undertook the dif- 
ficult feat of making coffee with salt 
water. The strength of the berry was 
ni>t sufficient to oxercome the saltness 
of the sea. and hence the men went 
coft'eeless, a hardship difficult for the 
a\eragL" layman to appreciate. The iith 
brings a bright morning, and the glori- 
ous appearance of thirty transports, 
cruisers, gunboats, and other craft at 
rest or ino\ing about the baw It gives 
the men a Iniovant feelinsi" io realize 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



29 



that they arc a ])art of sucli a wast 
array which will soon launch itself 
against the nation's foe. In the f( ire- 
noon comes the brigade commander. 
and a thorough inspection of the quar- 
ters assigned to the 3d Battalion, and 
said aggregation is Udt very unhappy 
at the announcement that the (|uarters 
are not fit fur their use. and that they 
are to go on lioard another vessel. At 
10.25 the Concho moves further up the 
bay and drops anchors. 

June I2th, in the morning, comes the 
welcome order to pack up, and the men 
had long been ready when the Knicker- 
bocker, at 12 m., ranged alongside the 
Concho. The new boat could not offer 
any worse accommodations, for any 
kind of a change was an inipro\ement, 
and the name was decidedly reminding 
of Washington Irving and his immor- 
tal story of early New York. At 3 p.m. 
the work of transferral of baggage from 
the old to the new cpiarters begins, and 
takes the entire afternoon. Being first 
on board, the boys of the 3d Battalion 
had their pick of location, and they 
chose the bow of the boat, a choice 
that the}- maintained, though, later, ef- 
forts were made to dispossess them. 
The old adage of possession and the 
nine points of law fully applied. I'I\'en- 
ing brought a characteristic Morida 
shower, in wdiich the rain came in tor- 
rents. The drinking-water provided is 
direct from the Mississippi river, and 
though somewhat muddy it is a great 
improvement on the Concho's distilled 
sea-water. Changed and improved 
quarters produce a marked ele\'ation in 
the spirits of the men. The ne.xt ila}-. 
or the I3tli. the Knickerbocker dropped 
down the bay aii<l cast anchor near the 
Orizaba for the purpose of taking on 
board the ist Battalion of the Second. 
Following the transferral of our com- 
patriots, the vessel steamed up to the 



wharf, and ]iroceeded to take on board 
necessary supplies for the ])rojected 
trip. The task took the entire night, 
and. on account of the noise, no one got 
a wink of sleep. The supplies consisted 
of hardtack, potatoes, cofifee, bacon, 
beans, tobacco, etc., and it was a note- 
worthy fact that the most perishable of 
all these articles were placed furthest 
away or in the most inaccessible places. 
Apparently the stevedore-in-chief had 
little com|)rehension of the needs of the 
larder. While the lading was in prog- 
ress, a steam-pipe leading from the 
boiler to the derrick burst, and a great 
excitement followed. Added to the 
noise of the explosion was the blinding 
steam, and a stampede was only nar- 
rowly averted. As it was, one of the 
gangways was broken, and several men 
were tumbled into the water. The 
worst result of the entire atTair was the 
loss by Lieutenant Fish, Company H, 
of his eyeglasses. 

Eight o'clock in the morning of the 
14th came the orders to move at once, 
but the moving out into the bay at 8.30 
and the dropping of the anchor at 12 m. 
is as near as we came to compliance. 
A military "at once" is a queer thing. 
Four o'clock comes, and with it an 
order, borne by the dispatch boat Hor- 
net, to take our place in the line of 
vessels. Over waveless waters the 
Knickerbocker steams to her position, 
and the long line of black-hulled crafts 
moves slowly out through the winding 
channel, bearing what was to do their 
part towards ending four centuries of 
Spanish misrule in America. There 
are thousands of peojile u])oii the 
wharves, and ever}- one is cheering. 
From the decks come responsive shouts, 
while each one of the twenty boats is 
doing its best to keep up the glorious 
harmony. The rigging is black with 
soldiers, who have clambered there for 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




A. T. SrUIRES. 
E. C. Cagnon. 
W M. W. Rice. 



R. C. Creen. 

Corp. ]. C. Hagberc. 

E. L. Fairbanks. 



I!. E. Wheeler 

S. .\. Wallace. 

W. T. Uruso. 



ENLISTED MEN, COMPANY A. 



CITY GUARDS, COMl'AXV 



31 



a farewell Iriok at iiati\-e land. Soon 
the outer waters of the (iulf are 
reached, and the ships are formecl in 
three columns, 400 feet apart, with the 
flagship, Annapolis, at the head, flanked 
by the Castine and the Helena. A fleet 
of torpedo boats patrols the outer 
waters and acts as dispatch boats be- 
tween the transports and the navy 
proper. Reaching the waters of the 
gulf was the signal for many cases of 
seasickness, for the surface was rough, 
and few of these lads were possessed 
of sea-legs. Though the sight of the 
long lines of steadily-moving steamers 
was one to be remembered. the arrange- 
ment was not unfraught with danger, 
as was evident when the one ahead of 
the Knickerbocker suddenly stopped, 
therebv narrowly escaping a collision 
with the Irving named. A\'ith the ex- 
ception of those who were paying in- 
voluntary tribute to Old Xeptune. the 
men are hap])}' and serene, many of 
them sending final letters home b_\' the 
pilot on his departure. \\'hile the day 
has been fair, it is followed b}' rain at 
night. Early in the morning oi the 
15th, a craft crossed the bow of the 
Knickerbocker, just escaping a crash, 
and the boys begin to think her num- 
ber. 13, a hoodoo. Xatiu'ally, excite- 
ment followed, and many a dream of 
home and mother was ruined by that 
"close shave." At 6 a.m. a distant 
light is pointed out as that of the Dry 
Tortugas. and any old soldier of the 
Rebellion could have enlightened the 
lads about him with stories of how the 
desolate islands were used during the 
strife of i86i-'65. The day is clear 
and warm, and more men are con- 
vinced, through troubles of their own, 
of their possessions in the way of 
stoinachs. The i6th brings rougher 
weather, and consequently a larger 
throng by the rail gazing down into 



the sea. This da}- came the orders that 
each man of Company A must slee]) 
in his bunk, seemingly a harsh and un- 
necessary command, for the deck was 
so much cooler and more pleasant. 
Perhaps in later months, the relief 
from severe malaria that these men 
enj(]yed, as compared with others, 
may have reconciled them to the seem- 
ing hardship. To unacclimated peo- 
ple, southern night air is unhealthful, 
whether on land or sea. Food, such 
as it was, came at regular intervals, 
but the men as a rule were not cra\-ing 
their rations. The so-called "roast 
beef" was a study in itself. (Dn the 
top of the newl}--o]iened can was a 
layer of something like jell}- : when this 
was cleared away there was displayed 
a watery mass in which ajiparentlv 
floated bits of beef, stringv and 
flabby. The sight was not alluring 
then, and the memory is nauseat- 
ing now. Even beans, witlKiut vine- 
gar or other relish, had lost their 
charms. 

June 17th, in Massachusetts recog- 
nized as Bunker Hill's day, was not 
celelirated as such on the Knicker- 
bocker. At 9.30 land is sighted, and at 
12.30 is seen what is said to be Point 
Mulas light on Cuban soil. Very like- 
ly the event had no connection with the 
day. but in this forenoon, at 9.30, the 
bugle blew an alarm, and e\'erv man 
came tumbling up from his middeck re- 
gions armed with his full equipment, 
and it was to the credit of the regiment 
that the line was completely formed in 
five minutes and twenty seconds. How 
surprised each man looked as he pro- 
jected himself through the hatchway 
and sought his place in line. Every 
face seemed to be asking, "Well, what's 
up now? Have we at last sighted 
Cervera, and is it a boarding squad that 
we are to form ?" To add seriousness 



32 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



to the scene, a canimn shut is licaril in 
the fmnt, and e\-en thnsc who had 
ordered the formation had reason to 
think, for a few moments, that ]iossibly 
theyhadbtiilded better than they knew. 
The shot, liowever, pnived to be one 
fired at a stransje craft, wdiich, on being 
overhauled, was allowed to go on its 
way unharmed. 

It was on this day that the officers' 
mess lost their dinner, or at least a part 
of it, through the theft of certain hun- 
gry enlisted men. Though the roasts of 
beef afforded by the cook were not of 
strictly first-class order, having been 
kept entirely too long, still it was eat 
this or nothing. S-^ while at noon day 
thev were awaiting the entry of the 
roast, the cook came in, exclaiming in 
a desperate way, "My T, — , the men 
have stolen the meat." It ai)pears that 
the surroundings had been carefully 
examined, and the plans were well laid, 
for at the auspicious moment, they had 
with a boat-hook deftly lifted the roast 
t(j their cleck. and had speedily made it 
play the grand disappearance act. 
Certain pleased and satisfied counte- 
nances in the later hijurs indicated 
where the meat had gone, but suspi- 
cions w(juld nnt convict. Hence the 
marauders went scathless. 

.\t I o'cldck p.m., land is again 
seen, and in the early evening a range 
(_)f mountains appears to arise from the 
sea. However anxious the men were 
to get away from Florida, nnw they 
were equally desirous (_)f step]iing on 
dry land again. The rear of the three 
colunuis is brought u]t Ijy several trans- 
])orts towing lighters, and, sometimes, 
the latter becimie unruly and are man- 
aged with difficulty. At such times 
the wlinle tieet has to ]iause long 
intervals, fre(|uently hours, while the 
trouble is righted. The iSth is ."^atur- 
day, and so far as outside matters are 



ciincerned is (|uite uneventful. The of- 
ficers ilo not find their (|uarters so good 
as those afforded them on the Cijncho, 
being close and stuft'y. The Knicker- 
Ixicker is an old, condemned Mississip- 
pi steamer, impressed into her present 
vocation, but the knowledge that the 
men are so much better off is some 
compensation for their own inconven- 
ience. To the end that cleanliness might 
be maintained, the officers had arranged 
a kind of bath, wdiere with a line of 
hose and something like an old-fash- 
ioned garden engine, the men gave each 
other shower baths each day. The of- 
ficers had the same from 7 to 8 a.m., 
while the men had washed each other 
tlown from 5 to 7 in the morning. Some, 
unknowing to the difference between 
iirdinary soap and that adapted to sea- 
water, at first resumed their uniforms 
with their bodies thoroughly larded 
with soap, and with nii great opinion 
of salt-water bathing any way. It was 
on this <lav that all were afforded the 
rare sight of a water-spout in motion. 
Luckily the experience was confined to 
sight only. Sunday brings continued 
\isions iif land in the distance, but no 
prospect of setting foot u])on it. There 
is no religious service, and the entire 
day is given to speculation and conjec- 
tures concerning the passing landscape. 
Each \'essel carries a signal officer, 
hence communication between the dif- 
ferent members of the fieet is possible, 
if not too far ajiart. In these later 
(lavs of wireless telegraphy, the signal 
service bids fair to become a lost art. 

Miinday, the 20th, brought the fleet 
to the entrance to Santiago harbor, 
sex'en or eight miles away. It is early 
in the nicjrning that the goal is reached, 
and to energetic 3-oung America there 
scL'ms to be no reason why they should 
not go ashore. Alas for their expecta- 
tions, there were long hours vet to he 



CITY GUARDS, COMI'A\\- 



33 



spent aliiiard tlu-ir tloating- prisons. It 
was a long and hot day that the ves- 
sels passed under that tropical sun. At 
5.45 ]).ni. orders were recei\'ed 1)y the 
government tug ( )sceola to steam out 
into the Atlantic a distance of ten 
miles or so. that the different shi]is 
might thus avoid collision. ]\v steam- 
ing a certain nundier of iKJurs in a 
given direction and then tacking at 
right angles, and repeating this course 
twice, each tack taking the same length 
of time, the crafts were brought l^ack 
in the morning tn |)rett\- near their 
starting-point. ( )n the Jlst the course 
of the 20th was pursued, only Captain 
Betts of the "Old Knick." sailed so 
far out into the ocean that in the morn- 
ing his vessel was alone, and it took 
him hours to find his associates. Dai- 
quiri, Siboney and Santiago appear to 
be undergoing simultaneous shelling, 
the shores are blazing with frames, ami 
the air throbs with vUjrations. 

At last there comes a change ovc,- 
the spirit of the dreams of the Second, 
and it comes none too soon, for rations 
are getting low; even the officers are 
living on two meals a da\-. While ly- 
ing off near Daiquiri, at i p.m. on the 
22d, headquarters boat Xo. 12 steams 
alongside, and an officer tells Colonel 
Clark that they had been looking for 
him all the morning, and that he was 
to steam within a quarter of a mile 
from the shore, a command that was re- 
ceived with cheers. That afternoon all 
the men of the Second got off, except 
those of the 3d Battalion, who, it will 
be remembered, were the first to board 
the steamer in Tampa Bay. The tow- 
ering and apparently rough and rocky 
mountains developed, as they were 
neared,into heights richly covered with 
the rankest tropical growths, and it is 
to the credit of the old Bay State that 
the first volunteer regiment to set foot 




on hostile soil was her glorious Second. 
There were regulars before us. but no 
volunteers. At 5.30 on this dav a trans- 
formation scene was l)rlu'l<l. rixaling 
anything c\-er seen in I'.lack C'rodk 
wonders. I'roni the lop (if a block- 
house, surnii lunliui^ a sleep lu-i^ht at 
the right of the landing at l)ai(|uiri, was 
floating a Spanish flag. Some soldiers 
with a commendable sense of the eter- 
nal fitness of things had climbed to the 
spot, and, the garrison having abscond- 
ed, they had no trouble in h;iuling 
down the foreign emblem and in sub- 
stituting the Star-spangled Banner. 
\ot since Hooker's men threw out the 
flag of the 8th Kenttick}- from the nose 
of Lookout on the 25th of November, 
1863, had the gloriotis ensign been re- 
ceived with such acclaim. The valiant 
deed is ascribed to Major Lamothe and 
two of his men from the Rough Riders. 
The landing itself was effected with 
difficulty on account of the roughness 
of the sea. A steam launch from the 
cruiser Xew York, with a line of small 
boats in tow, comes to the side of the 
transport, and the men had to climb 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




down a mpc ladder and tluis liim1)lo 
in as best the}- conld. There was no 
standing im the order of their going, 
hnt tliey had ti ] go at (Mice or not at 
all. When the boats were filled they 
were drawn off towards the landing, 
where new dangers awaited them. Con- 
stant care was necessary to prevent the 
dashing of the boats against the iron 
I)ier. Jnst the moment that the boat 
and the landing were em a le\el, must 
be seize. I to jump for it. .Ml militar\- 
prcci^i<in of moxement was lost sight of 
in the effort to get out of the l)oat and 
to the wharf with wh(de skins. Sixt\- 
or se\ent_\- boats might be seen at once 
tlius engaged in circling around and 
trying to land their men. Xot with- 
standing the utmost care several boats 
were shattered. an<l two colored troop- 
ers were drowned.* I^'nnii Co. A on 
thi^ day landed Ca])tain Barrett. Lieuts. 
Tisdell and I'lummer, .Sergts. Allison 



*Corporal Edward Cobb, of Richmond, Va., 
and Private John English, of Chattanooga, 
Tenn. Brave Captain O'Neill of the Rougli 
Riders, who. a few days later, was to fall at 
San Juan, did Iiis best to rescue them, luit 
without avail. Their bodies were recovered. 



I AT Daiquiri. 

and Riedl, and Privates Clapp, Bruso 
and 'l'ra\er. The remainder of the 
company were doomed to one night 
more with "'Old Knick.," which steamed 
out about two miles from the shore. 

The last da}- on shipboard is not 
without incident, for in the excitement 
of the morning of the J^d, the captain 
of the ship just misses running into an- 
other vessel, also steaming for the 
shore. The prospect of such violent 
landing is not relished by the men or 
their officers, and when the excitement 
has subsided. Captain .\llen of the Light 
Infantry speaks his mind to the chief 
officer of the ship in miequi\'ocal lan- 
guage, very much to the delight of 
those listening. However, the getting 
off was effected finally, and a happy lot 
of men they were as thev again trod 
terra fir ma. e\en though it was foreign 
soil : and how good it seemed to lie able 
to stretch one's legs again. \'ery little 
delay is had, howe\er. and under the 
ccnnmand of Lieut. -Col. Slnnnwa_\- the 
3d B.attalion starts to effect a union 
with the other two. Daifiuiri is more 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



35 



in name than in fact, imh' a few scat- 
tering shacks of houses, and even these 
have been sadly shattered by the fire 
from the gunboats. On the march, at 
tile top of a Iiill, near a roundhouse, 
are seen two wounded Spaniards, the 
first bloody evidence of warfare ever 
seen by the great majority of the men, 
and it were not strange if the sight had 
a somewhat sobering efifect. Here, too, 
was seen the first starving Cuban fam- 
ily. Having halted for a few moments, 
from a near-by rambling structure ap- 
peared to come a cry of human distress. 
Investigation re\ealed a mother lying 
helpless upon the floor, and near her 
was a wailing infant. Also there were 
three little girls and a boy, all more 
resembling skeletons than humanitv. 
Openings through the roof and side of 
the house had been made by shells from 
the ships. Generous hands speedily 
offered the contents of haversacks to 
the starving sufferers. 

The roads are only trails or paths, 
and through the crookedest of such the 
march is made. The Second is ahead, 
till it drops in behind the 22d Regulars. 
Just before reaching Siboney there is a 
slight brush between the enemy and 
the troopers in advance, Ijut it lasts 
scarcely more than ten minutes, the 
Spaniards giving way and retreating 
beyond the town, which is as God-for- 
saken a place as eye ever looked upon. 
The bombardment had ruined every- 
thing, an iron bridge had been cut and 
slashed by shot and shell, and filth ap- 
parently here reigned supreme. A fit- 
ting place for a camp was hard to find, 
but one was found in which tents were 
pitched, and from the abtmdance of a 
certain kind of shell-covered life it was 
called "Crab Hollow." 

Company A's first night camp on 
Cuban soil will not be forgotten soon. 
New ex])eriences were found every 



hour. Hardly were llu- tents i)itched 
before rain began to fall in torrents. 
During the sleepless hours which fol- 
lowed it was easy to review the march 
and scenes of the day. It was not far 
from Daiquiri that a small brook was 
encountered, and the boys learned that 
neither bridge niu' pontoon was in 
stock and that they must wade, and 
wade they did, with resultant water- 
filled shoes. Some of these embryonic 
soldiers, wholly unused to wet feet, 
and remembering early maternal in- 
junctions, halted long enough to ex- 
change their wet socks for dry. Of 
course they were comfortable till they 
came, a quarter of a mile further along, 
to another runlet, and thereby, to 
anijther change. But the third stream 
put an end to all prudential pedal pro- 
visions, and, wet or dry, they trudged 
along. It was a new world that was 
opening to these Alassachusetts men, 
and their eyes widened at the sight 
of cactus and chaparral, both distin- 
guished for their thorny, bayonet-like 
projections, warranted to pierce and 
cut like a knife. Cocoanut ])alms were 
everywhere conspicuous, and, ere long, 
the soldiers learned that the liquid 
contained in the green fruit was both 
cooling and palatable. Likewise they 
early discovered how to climb these 
same palms. 

It was at the nocmtime halt for din- 
ner that Private Wills, for obvious 
reasons ycle])ed "The Bug Chaser, "dis- 
covered in the leafy heights of a tree 
a gorgeously colored serpent. True to 
his proclivities, he proclaimed his in- 
tentions of capturing that snake, and 
actually climbed the tree and brought 
the reptile down with him. a crawling 
ophidian fully four feet in length, and 
of the brightest hues — rather a ven- 
turesome proceeding in a strange land, 
and wholly i,gnorant as to the charac- 



36 



WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



teristics <>i the oltject ; Init as all is well 
that ends well, the prixate was nut Ijit- 
ten. and the tragic part was euntined 
to his siiakeshii). 

All sorts of reasons conspired to 
murder slee|) in this first night, promi- 
nent among them Ijeing the unloading 
of vessels in the offing of Sihoney. 
Stripped t(i their skins, volunteers 
worked through the entire night get- 
ting out the rations and munitions nec- 
essarv for the expedition ; all this un- 
der the rays of search-lights fmm the 
gunboats. Perhaps no one circum- 
stance contributed uKire td the men's 
discomfort than the alnmdance of land 
crabs, \vhose presence, indeed, had 
gained for the camp its uneuphonious 
name. If the Sjianianls ran away and 
left the coast clear for the .\mericans. 
the cralis did not ; rather did they come 
in large l)attalions to see and taste just 
wdiat these new comers were. Nor 
were they the tiny objects familiar to 
the northern schoolboy who on freedcnn 
bent I'lays hooky along ^onie pinding 
stream, but great big fellows with long 
pincers and staring eyes. Mow were 
these bovs to know but that they were 
as poisonous as their cousins, the tar- 
antulas? To crown all. Lieut. Tisdell 
had a sex'ere attack of insomnia, and. 
wholly unalile to woo the drowsy god 
himself, he evidently determined that 
none other should. It was a nightlong 
race between the lieutenant and the 
crabs, but it will ne\er be known to 
which jiarty the honors helong. The 
antipath}- and disgust of a Worcester 
boy at the contact of his flesh with the 
claws of a crustacean were intense, and 
aroused the keenest merriment in 
everybody excejit the one touche<l. 

While Lieut. T.'s orgies were at 
their height, and he was hapi)y as a 
crab-cha>ing officer could lie. there 
came from a nearby tent the horror- 



burdened cry. ".\ light, a light!" What 
Could it be! Xothing like it in agony 
had e\-er smote the ears of those lads 
before, and the}' hastened with the 
light-giving taper to investigate. Fol- 
lowing the ever-resounding call, the}- 
fouml the same pr(iceeding from the 
tent of their popular Cajjtain. who, ap- 
parentlw had struck either a nightmare 
or a severe attack of the colic. They 
found their beloved Captain lying on 
his back. and. with distressed eyes, 
looking at one of his sh<:)ulders. on 
which had recently been iierching 
something, what he knew not. but 
afraid of tarantulas he jireferred to 
ha\e a light liefore he brushed him 
awaw The varmint, tuifavorable to 
light. (|uickl\- scuttled (itf. disappearing 
under the edge of the tent. Whatever 
disposition to sleep there may have 
been u]) to this moment, the foregoing- 
episode effectually destroyed, so crawd- 
ing out the boys stood around the 
camjj-fires. sang songs, smoked, and 
talked of far-ofif Massachusetts and the 
folks at home till morning. 

June 24 is the date of the fight at 
Las ( iuasanias. where Colonel Wood 
and his Rough Riders had their first 
encounter with the enen-iy. It has been 
stated that this engagement w-as not 
contemidated by General Shafter, but 
was the result of the \\'ood-Roosevelt 
over-eagerness to win renown, in a 
measure contributed to by the acquies- 
cence of (ieneral Wheeler. Be this as 
it may. it is certain that the fight was 
on within hearing of the volunteers, 
and naturally they wondered w'hen and 
where they w-ere to go in, but there 
were duties near at hand bef(-ire they 
could march t(-i the sound of the guns. 
Rations \\-ere to be drawn and dis- 
tributed, and it was while cooking his 
breakfast that Private Grover con- 
tributed no little to the mirth of his 



CITY GUARDS, COMPAXY A. 



37 



fellows. Al\va\'s fond of well-cooked 
food, on this occasion he had planned 
for an muisual dish, in fact, it was a 
beef stew that he was contemplating, 
of which the first essential was some 
of the "prime roast beef" already re- 
ferred to. The soldier had chosen the 
site for his fire with great care, and 
everything was progressing finely, and 
his mouth was beginning to water for 
the toothsome combination when, 
presto! up went fire, cup, stew and all. 
It appears he had made his fire just 
over the hole of a crali. which, under 




T ^1 






■/ 



A Native Cuban-Tarantula. 

the provocation of excessive heat, 
leaped up and away, scattering lirands 
and breakfast in his flight. The min- 
gled looks of astonishment, disgust 
and disappointment which overspread 
the private's face had made the fortune 
of anv one catching them in a snap 
shot. Alas ! as usual, the kodak fiend 
was not looking. 

The surf-bathing was fine, and ofii- 
cers and men were not slow to improve 
it. One party included A"s commis- 
sioned officers and Major Fairbanks. 



They found the shore shelving rapidly, 
hence a ver}' abrupt descent, but the 
temperature was genial, and no fear of 
sharks marred the pleasures of the dip. 
Every one .who indulged was better 
and cleaner for the rinse. The hasty 
de])arture of the enemy had prevented 
the complete destruction of their 
stores, and among them were several 
casks of wine, which int|uisitive Yan- 
kees were not slow in finding and no 
fear of poison prevented sampling. 
Luckily, ofiicers who knew the harm- 
ful effect of indulgence in such stuff in 
this climate, quickly ordered the same 
turned out upon the ground, much to 
the displeasure of some who hated to 
see so much good liquor wasted. A 
very small portion was saved for sub- 
sequent hospital use. At least one 
canteen in the ranks of A was found 
whose contents tasted of the casks, but 
the fluid had been so thoroughly di- 
luted that no evil results were felt nor 
apprehended. 

Xo feature of the unloading of the 
transports gave more pleasure or 
awakened more interest than the man- 
ner in which the horses were brought 
ashore. As at Daiquiri, ranging along- 
side the piers was impossible, and the 
letting of a horse down into a small 
boat was impracticable, hence the only 
wav was to force him upon a platform 
and then run the same out till the 
weight of the animal overbalanced it 
and the steed dropped down into the 
water, when he must swim for it, some- 
thing which he lost no time in doing. 
There was as much dift'erence. however, 
in horses as in men, and some of the 
poor beasts, in their confusion, swam 
for a long time in circles, and a few 
went directly out to sea and were 
drowned, among the latter one of 
Lieut. -Col. Roosevelt's saddle-horses, 
Rain-in-the-Face. For the encourage- 



38 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAK 



nicnt and tjuidance of the horses, as 
the}- were given their involuntary 
plunge, buglers were stationed upon the 
shore to sound the stable-call as the an- 
imals reached the water, and in most in- 
stances the measure was effectual. The 
sight of horses with erect ears changing 
their course in response to the familiar 
call was provocative of reflections upon 
the ^•alue of discipline among all crea- 
tures, 1)ipeds as well as quadrupeds. 

A\'hile the rumble of the guns was 
heard, there came over the hills whence 
the sound seemed to proceed, a rider 
on foaming stee<l, with arms and boih- 
torn and bleeding from contact with 
nature's weapons, galloping to the 
commander of the l^irigade, then Col. 
E. P. Clark of the 2d. and in breathless 
tones cries, "1 ha\'e 1)een sent for aid. 
Send reinfi ircements. For ( iod's sake 
send 'em (piick !" Though the Colonel 
cpieried for a moment he soon ordered 
the Xtli and _'jd C. S. to advance, while 
the 2<1 Massachusetts was retained to 
guard the landing. The tents of thijse 
who were to march \\ent down like 
magic, anil in a trifle more than two 
minutes thetroops were ready to move. 
Was there e\'er a time when troops 
in the fiebl did not have trouble with 
their rations? I'.efore the same coidd 
l;)e distributed at Siboney, the bo_\'s 
were on short commons, and had it 
not been for some foresight on leav- 
ing the Knickerbocker, certain of the 
A boys had suiTered. As it was they 
had none too much, but they were 
enough better oft' than their Major 
I'^airbanks, who was dri\en to sharing 
the rations de\dted to his horse. 

Rel)elliou recollections of Anna])olis 
and the deeds of the Massachusetts 8th 
were roused in the ingenuity of our 
\\'orcester men, whi >. fmding a dis- 
mantled b ici imotixe, set to work to se- 
cure ;ind put together its coniponent 



parts, in which eft'nrt they were so suc- 
cessful that they soim had it running 
up ami down the tracks. Again, the 
iron bridge, which had been destroved 
during the bombardment, was effectu- 
ally re])aired, under the direction of 
Capt. Frank L. Allen of the Light In- 
fantry. The \\'orcester battalion could 
not only repair locomotive and bridge, 
but they could have constructed the 
same dc mrz'o, and could have under- 
taken any other little job of skilled 
workmtmshi]) w-hich |niblic exigency 
might have necessitated. Their soldier- 
ing was onl}- an a\-ocation : their tru.e 
calling \vas using their wits for up- 
building rather than destroying. 

As rations galore were on the shore 
an equipment for four da\'S was given 
out, and the Iioys soon realized what 
too much of a good thing meant. Eacli 
man was to carry 130 rounds of ammu- 
nitiiin ; under his left arm he had a four- 
ipi;irt can 1 if tomatoes: upon his right 
shoubler was his gun: hardtack and 
bacon distended his haversack, while 
his roll of clothing crowned all. \\'ha( 
a sight for the folks at home, and how 
small a flgure his real im|dements of 
war cut in all this outfit. The quantity 
of hardtack was so great that each man 
Could not carry all of his share, and 
not wishing to lose any of the precious 
staft' of life, for no one knew when he 
would get more, all sorts of artifices 
were de\-ised to retain it. To com- 
])ass this end, long poles were secured 
and 1)\- means of nails, taken from the 
loosened covers of the tack boxes, with 
stones the poles were attached to the 
sides of the boxes, and the bo_\'S es- 
sayed the grand p.orter act, taking 
turns in the attempt to keep the thing 
going. Xotwithstaniling their efforts, 
only a few of the boxes were thus car- 
ried safely through : the draft upon 
nerve and strength was too great. 



CITY GUARDS, COM TAN V A. 



•39 



It was at 4 i>.m. that the lino of 
march was taken l)y our \ nhmtjers, 
and they had not proceeded far before 
indications of the fight ahead began to 
appear in the shape of wounded men. 
Therewas one man who had seven liul- 
let holes in or through him. l)Ut the 
courage and gciod s])irits of tlie men 
who had lieen hit were mar\elous. 'l"he 
march is around rather than o\-er the 
liill, and in coUnnn of twos, at times 
reduced to single file on account of the 
narrowness of the Avay, thereby in jiart 
to escape the lacerating edges of the 
omnipresent cactus. Our impressions 
of the Cuban patriot are not heightened 
bv this trip, for while Americans are 
straining and toiling in his behalf he 
is feeding and resting. As Massachu- 
setts passes by, he is eating our "prime 
roast beef," and is wearing our cloth- 
ing, which the forced character of our 
marching has compelled us to throw 
away. In a word, the being whose mis- 
fortunes have brought us from com- 
fortable northern homes, before our 
verv eves has become a scavenger, and 
is disputing with turkey buzzards the 
refuse we have rejected. Truly the 
Cuban is not a noble creature ! ! ! 
Fighting seems to be furthest from his 
thoughts. They are the individuals 
against whom precautions must be 
taken when we are compelled to throv,- 
off haversack and rolls, for they would 
quickly possess themselves of every 
item. Such grateful beings are the}- 
for the service the United States is 
rendering them ! ! 

The march is a hard one anfl tells 
upon the men, but they plod manfully- 
forward, up steep mountains with 
boulder-strewn trails, with ever-in- 
creasing traces of the fight. \'olun- 
teers are enduring the forced march 
quite as well as the regulars, and this 
gives a deal of satisfaction, for every- 




thing in army lines is rated on (_ir by 
the regular army standard. There was 
evervthing to make the marching hard 
and tiresome: mud, rocks, pitfalls 
and crowding cactus, but through it 
all the Second forged ahead. Tho 
shades of evening are gathering when 
the men reach the "sun-dial house," 
where the Rough Riders are perform- 
ing the last rites over the bodies oi 
their slain. 'Tis a gruesome sight : the 
blanketed forms, lying so stark and 
still, are somebody's darlings, and 
northern eyes are to grow dim for this 
day's work. Did any one wonder if 
the game were worth the candle? Who 
knows? The quavering notes of the 
chaplain as he intoned the service for 
the dead fitted well into the descend- 
ing darkness, antl •'talis." ever the sad- 
dest of army calls, sent many a chill 
through bodies that were not wont to 
ear. Here is the real in war: the en- 
listment, the parade, the departure are 
only the glamour. 

But this is not our camping place. 



40 \ATiRrESTER IN THE SrAXTSTI WAR. 

since the Americans had (h-i\'en the At ndun a fresh start is made and 
enemy some (hstance farther, and with the Secund advances about three miles 
athled weariness tile line is taken up nearer the tneniy. The march is made 
a.ejain. For fully three miles, throuc;h cauticjusly and with flankers and 
difficulties like those of the earlier scouts, of which work, as the Second 
afternoon, the advance is made. If is on extreme left, the Massachusetts 
possilile the later way is even harder men Iku'c their full share. The 26th 
than the earlier, and bagg-age, cheer- sees a further adxance towards the 
fidly borne till now, is thrdwn c iff and enemy, and in the same careful man- 
left behind. Huring the last half mile "er. Dm-ing the day's march Captain 
of the march, sume can endure the pace jnhn T'.igelow, Jr.. of the loth Cavalry, 
no longer, ami fall out, to come halt- a West Pointer, remarks as follows of 
ing in at a later hour. ( )ut nf a slimy, "ur l)oys: 

dismal gullv the line Mf men at last i 1 ■ .^i c 1 at 

■ 1 remember seeing the becoiid Alas- 
emerges, and ,,n a grassy plateau en- sachusetts go by, and being impressed 
camps. W illingly would the men have b\" the improvement of the men in ap- 
tlirown themsehes upon the ground pearance since I saw them at Lake- 
withont tent ,,r fo..il. but Company A. ''"'"^'- They were about as brown and 
is under stringent rule, and the tents l'."'^^'^ almost as hardy asthe regulars. 



have to go U]i. and the men are taught 



riiey went through mud and water, 
well closed u]), at a .good swinging gait, 
the \alue .if perscmal care. They had ( )ur volunteers in Cuba, as a class," did 
passed tlinnigh their first forced march themselves credit. They had not the 
and they had covered themselves with respect for shoulder-straps that is de- 



siraljle — nor had the regulars — but 

, ■ ^ ,, ., thev were much better soldiers thar 

eniselves just then — the\- were too r * r /-•• -1 i^- -^1 ^1 

' ■ ^^ volunteers of our tivd \\ ar with the 



credit, but they were imt pluniin 
then- 
tired 



same length of ser\-ice. I am bound 

The morning of the 25tii brings in- to say that they did better on the 

creased sense of weariness and the niarch and in action than I had e.x- 

sight (if some nf yester.lay's work, for I'^'''"'^''' ^'^^''^ ^" '^''■ 

here are the bndies of some of the slain, b^ven half praise from a West 

among them those .if Captain Capron T'ointer, t.i wh.im a soldier is little bet- 

and .Sergeant llamilt.in Fish, both of ter than a thing, is something, and fig- 

the Rough Ri.lers. .\s breakfast is in uratively the Second takes off its hat 

I)reparati..n there cmie t.i men .if the 1. 1 L'a|>tain I'., aii.l remarks. "Thanks, 

Second many .if the fighters in yester- awfully. Captain! Y.iu .lo us i)r.iu.ll" 
day's fray, craving some of the food Abniday. June 2jth. there is a march 

brought with mi much lab.ir fr. mi Sil)- of a few miles towar.ls Santiag.i, and 

oney. The K.iugli Riders ha.l been the camping idace is near the toj) of 

ordere.l t.i tlir. iw oft' their extra ])ag- a sightly hill, w.io.l surrounded. The 

.gage. ,111.1 as a c inse.pience had been .uitl.iok is fine, aii.l the day is made 

himgry .since, ( )ur boys woiil.l have nieni.irable by the coming of a letter 

been imnatiiral cunirades if they had fmni the States directed to Private 

not <|uickly an.l willingly c.nUributed 1 la\es .if .\ C.Miipany. bearing a North 

of their iiwn St. ires. The Cubans might (iraftmi pi.stmark, '■June 10." Some 

have exhibite.l their ])atri.itism by .,f the men tli.uight that c. mibination 

guarding rather than stealing the f. lod .if letters never c.iul.l l.iok so good, 

of their ilefenders. 'I'he 28th is given to camp duties, and 



CITY GUARDS, C(>MPAX\' 



41 



a realization liiat time ami the R(nii;li 
Riders hn\-e saill\- depleteil cur ratimis. 
Eaeh (la>' l)rin!L,'^s its thunder-storm, 
and the men ;u\- hi'Ci iniint;; almost am- 
])hil)iiiiis. 

( In the J()th there was a conference 
of the commissioned officers of the Sec- 
ond to consider the shortness of 
rations, which were reduced to one tack 
and a piece of ])ork, the size of a small 
walnut, per man. Three officers, in- 
cluding C'aptain liarrett, were desig- 
nated to visit Colonel Clark, command- 
ing the brigade, and to set forth the 
situation. As a result all the horses 
belonging to the r)fficers, some eight or 
ten in number, were sent down to Sib- 
oney, under the direction of Lieutenant 
\'esper of Compau}" 11, to pack back to 
camp as man}- provisi(>ns as ]>ossible. 
The outcome of the expe<lition was a 
ration of six hardtack for each man. 
Also on this day .irrived Sergeant G. A. 
Poland, who had been left at Daiquiri 
in charge of the commissary stores. 
His coming was most opportune, for in 
addition to the want of food, the men 
had run short of tobacco, a condition 
piartieularly disagreeal)le to the soldier, 
and his stock of Navy plug and other 
delicacies was soon exhausted. The 
dav befr)re $5 had lieen given for a 
paper of AhiMi's smoking tobacco. 
Some of our actpiired appetites are 
stronger than the natural ones. Just 
now there is nothing wasted, and each 
bit of food is most jealously guarded. 
Xo crumljs are thrown away, and each 
ilish and platter is licked clean. 1 lard- 
tack can not be bought at an\- ]irice. If 
onl_\- some of the su])erabundance that 
is moulding in the storehouses in Sib- 
oney cijuld be l)rought up, and it is not 
so very far ofil Some one has blun- 
dered, leaving men hungry, when great 
(juantities of ])ro\'isions ha\e been pro- 
viiled. ".So near and \et so far!" Rain 



ag.ain, ,and sexenty-fn-e rounds of am- 
mimition, of which there seems to be 
no lack, h'oi- ihr Ca])tain's comfort ami 
Company hcacKpiarters, the mm ])iU up 
a shack, consisting of four u])right 
])osts with cross-|)irees .•mil long grass 
laid o\'er them, after the m.annrr of a 
thatch. 

The last day of June came and with 
it orders to cook one day's rations .m 1 
to be ready to mo\e at a moment's 
notice, liefore leaving camp rations for 
seventy-seven men were distributed, as 
follows, viz.: one box of soap, one-half 
pound of tobacco, fifty pounds hard- 
tack, two cups of beans, and one slri[} 
of bacon. There was little danger of a 
surfeit fr(.>m that layc^nt. Small and 
riiliculous as the ration of beans was, 
it was amusing to note the eagerness 
of the men for an eipialde dixision of 
the same. .Vctually, they had t(> be 
counted out. .Some of the best accom- 
modations so far as the camp was con- 
cerned were had here. The water came 
flown the hillside, and xvas fairl\- good, 
llathing was the most longed-for privi- 
lege, but of course it could not be tol- 
erated in the stream whence also came 
the drinking water. However, Yankee 
wit soon supplied the necessary facili- 
ties, and they were ha<l in this way. 
Just a little ways from the stream a 
hole woul.l be dug in the soft earth, ami 
in this was fitted the rublier blanket 
of the bather. Then, with cup i)r can- 
teen, he would pass water from the 
stream to the receptacle, and when the 
necessary amount was secured, he 
woulfl take his im])rovised sitting bath. 
\\ hen the water had served its pur- 
pose, two men, seizing the corners of 
the blanket, by a ipiiek and dextrous 
moxement a\ou1c1 throw the contents 
back from tliestream. In this way there 
was not the least danger of pollution. 

d'he men relate with some gustothat 



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Sekgt. E. is. Sawyer. 


Jas. W. Smith. 


Howard K. HnBBh 


Fhed'k G. Newell. 


Samuel E.Clapf. 


John T. Brusky. 


Corp. A. F. Murray. 


Peter N. White. 


Chas. a. Fischer 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



43 



Captain I'.arrctt lia.l just hail his hath 
and was ik-cp in the mysteries of a 
washday struggle when the orders to 
move came. The article that he would 
like to don at once was in the suds, as 
were se\-eral other items of ap]5arel. 
There was no time to (lr\- them, and 
the ver\- hest he coulil do was to wrini;" 
them out and to han:;" tlieni o\er his 
shoulder instead of a line, and in this 
decidedly cii deshabille manner he di- 
rected the advance of his company. It 
was on this da}' that the war balloon 
was noted. It appeared to hang mo- 
tionless in midair. Though used in the 
Rebellion and in the Franco-Prussian 
\\ ar, it would seem that ballooning 
has not yet become a successful ad- 
junct of military operations. 

.\t 3 o'clock ]).m. the ad\'ance was 
begun, and was continueil for possildy 
six miles, and as rain had been falling 
the roads were simply horrible. It was 
nearly night wdien the regiment passed 
through VA I'oso ; seemingly all the. 
troo]js were in motion, and sometimes 
at right angles to the route taken by 
the Second. Then there was halting 
by first one and then the other of the 
clashing bodies, a poor wa\' tiT get any- 
where. iMnally, the .'^an juan River is 
reached, and along its side the soldiers 
march for a time, and thence turn to 
the right and proceed to climb a hill. 
Six-pace intervals are taken, wads are 
removed from the guns, and the utmost 
pains are taken to prevent any kind of 
noise as the march proceeds. Through 
rain and wading streams the men are 
completely wet through. Xo talking 
is permitted, ancl every now and then 
a man finds himself tangled up in 
barbed wire, whereupon the words, 
"barbed wire" would go along the line. 
At a late hour orders to bivouac are 
given, and the men eat uncooked ra- 
tions because fires are forbidden. Xo 



tents are pitched, and each man rolls 
himself in his blanket and consigns 
himself to his couch of mud and water. 
Guards and pickets are demanded, and 
from .A Com])anv the detail consists of 
Cor])oral Fa}-, with Tri\ates Fambi'r- 
ton, ]\Iills, Laflamme and F.oardman. 

Those wdno cast their exes about ihem 
are rewarded with seeing at tlu-ir left 
the lights of Santiago, while from the 
city come the regular chimes of cathe- 
dral l)ells as they note the ad\'ancing 
hours. To sleep on their arms h.'is a 
business flavor, but the announcement 
by a cinnder that the coming day would 
doubtless bring on an engagement, 
with the suggestion that each man 
should direct wdiat he would like to 
ha\'e done with his eti'ects in case he 
failed to respond at the following roll- 
call, sets many a man to thinking. 

The first da}- of July found our 
\N\ircester bo\s getting such comfort 
as thev could from their damp sur- 
nnundings, sleeping or listening to the 
barking of El Caney dogs, cjr to 
the more distant tolling of the great 
bell in the Cathedral of Santiago. It 
would ajipear that some soul were 
passingconstantly.or that pious friends 
were paying fabulous sums for the 
repose of the dead, since that was the 
interpretation of the solemn sounds, 
which through the entire night recalled 
the full significance of the funeral bells 
of Poe : 

••Iron iK'llsl 
What a world of soleinn thmiglu their monody 
compels! 
In tlie silence of the night. 
How we shiver with affright 
At the melanclioly menace of their tone!" 

There were no ringing notes of 
bugle-call to rouse the men on this 
fateful morn, but at 3.30 a.m. the word 
was passed which drove away all 
thoughts of sleep. A frugal breakfast 



44 



■WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



of hardtack. bacon aii.l water was taken 
cold. and lon,£;- l)ef<>re nur nearest neigh- 
bors, the 22(1 U. S.. fell in, the 2<\ Mas- 
sachusetts was reatly to advance. 
Capron's IJatterv. which accompanies 
the dixisiim, is getting- into ]iosition. 
and is screening itself with brush. El 
Canev lies (piietly in the distance, and 
soldiers can be seen plainly as they 
march about. Each man evidently 
knew that at last he was to face the fire 
of the enemy, and that was all that he 
or his officers knew. The plan of liat- 
tle, if plan there was, nt) ime has ever 
seen. Eater, it has appeared that the 
intent was to carry El Caney early in 
the da\', and then with a swing to the 
left mo\e on San Juan, and sn carry all 
the defences of Santiago, but "there's 
many a sli])." etc. 

"Forward" was at last heard, and 
after the 22d oiu- Ijoys followed, strug- 
gling along the devious and cactus- 
guarded trails, which came as near 
being r(iads as anything in this mis- 
ruled ciiuntr\- ciiuld l)e. Tortuous and 
narriiw, the\- were nuuldy besides. It 
was at 6.43 that the first gun was fired 
from Capron's Battery. an<l the Cap- 
tain i^f A was hard by when this awak- 
ener was sent over towards the. "Spanish 
town, and its reception producecl a de- 
cided sensaticin ann mg the inhabitants. 
Other shots followed, but owing to 
the distance, 2500 yards, the results 
were not all that could be desired. 
This location of the battery had neces- 
sitated a di\ision of the regiment, and 
Companies .\, C, F, H and 1 found 
themselves severed from their own fel- 
lows. Major Fairbanks being in com- 
mand, h'or some time the whereabouts 
of the other c(.inii)anies was unknown, 
they having g<.'ne on. 

At 7.45 a.m., owing to a cessation 
of the artiller\- firing, the com])anies 
were allowed to [jroceed, advancing 



down hill through a tangle of under- 
brush and liarbed wire, arranged to 
ini])ede progress. .Striking a more level 
stretch of surface the pace increased, 
though there are still vexatious delays 
awaiting orders or to investigate mys- 
terious clumps of bushes, etc. I^ittle 
eft'ort is made to avoid mud, bayonet- 
pointed cactus and other obstacles, for 
the firing-line is nearing.and the leaden 
danger beconies UKire imminent. Soon 
the march brings the line to a small 
and sluggish stream, across wdiich the 
men go without delay, and many will 
remember that it was here they saw 
their chai)lain filling his canteen, and 
it was a common remark that the job 
a|i])eared to lie an uncommonly long 
one. .V short distance beyond the 
stream, the main road from El Caney 
to .Santiago is reached and a sharp 
turn is made to the right. 

The roar of artillery and the rattle 
of ritles have become so uniform that 
the men are losing their nervousness 
and await orders for their own partici- 
pation Avith eagerness, for the heat of 
the battle begins to glow in each man's 
breast. Again there is a deflection to 
the right, and, advancing, the battalion 
finds itself under fire. The enemy's 
range, however, is too high and 
branches of the trees sufi'er more than 
the advancing lines. Wounded men 
are seen by the roadside, in varying 
degrees of sufifering. Owing to the in- 
creasing danger, cover is sought in the 
edge of a wood. It was at this point 
that Private Peter X.W hite was struck 
b\ a s]>ent ball, the same striking him 
upon the shoidder. and he went down 
at <_ince, onl\- (|uickl_\ to rise again, as 
he found that the stroke was in no 
wav serious, the bullet luuing hit the 
canteen strap. 

It was during this separation that 
.Major Fairbanks added to his reputa- 



CITY GUARDS, COM PAW A. 



45 




3d (CKaffee'sl Brigade: 
y)F,mpo.u,.„,T, 
@w,dp«.„io,.. 

2d (Miles'!) Brigade: 

®f"- -"""'"■ 
®s„o„dp.,.m«„, 

Isl (Ludlow's) Brigade 

©»--«>" »" 

5s..„„dr. 

Capron's Light Battery 
® F'", PC.,, 

Bates's Brigade: 
,10, i-^...™.3d,!mb. 



tion for coolness an(J the boys ever 
sing his praises as they disc(_iiirse (in 
the way the "Dandy Alajor" kept 
things in (irder. That he might know 
just where they were, he called for a 
couple of men to accompany him as 
orderlies on a reconnoissance which he 
undertook. He advanced far enough 
to find the regimental adjutant, and 
also to be so much exposed that on 
their return. Private Fischer vowed he 
(lidn"t wish t(_> lie orderly any longer, 
Ijeing quite willing to forbear any and 
all honor connected with the position, 
but he continued to serve, just the 
same. 

The impatient waiting was to have 
an end, and it came when an (Orderly 
rushed up with orders for Major Fair- 
banks. Immediately follows the com- 
mand, "Form for attack!" Company 
I. under Captain Williams, is the firing 
line. Companv A, Captain Barrett, 
supports, and the other companies are 
in reserve. Soon the order, "Form 



line oi scpiad!" and "As skirmishers!" 
was given, in which formation the ad- 
\ance on El Caney was made. That 
the attack ina\" l.)e the UKire effectual, 
the rolls Ijorne b}' the men are laid oft' 
under a tree, and Corporal Hobbs, with 
Privates Hall and Smith, are detailed 
to guard them. The first man wound- 
ed is a private in F. whose arm is trav- 
ersed lengthways by a bullet, inflict- 
ing so painful a womid that he set 
up a howl which was calculated to 
dispirit the stoutest heart. The ex- 
citement and nervousness incident to 
the event were quickly allayed by the 
tact of Alajor Fairbanks, who, as usual, 
was where he could do the most good. 
The advance started in the hope and 
expectation of finding the regiment, 
though the same was not found till 
later. The pioneer corps, under Ser- 
geant Jordan of Company H, was en- 
countered, and from him the location 
of the other companies was learned. 
From an elevated position the town of 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



El Caney is seen some 800 yards away. 
Large and small block-houses are dis- 
covered at intervals where they can 
best protect the aggregation of houses 
and shacks which constitute the vil- 
lage. Here the companies were or- 
dered to the right flank, to a position 
near the stone fort, with directions to 
hold the ].)osition and await further 
orders. C<ini]iany formation is had as 
regularh' and as eftectually as if on 
parade, showing the result of drill and 
discipline. Nothing in the story of the 
Cuban campaign gives the Worcester 
hnys more regret than the fact that 
their ammunition was of that old-fash- 
i(.ined character that every shot re- 
vealed the i)resence of the one firing. 
This was all right in olden times, when 
ever_y combatant was thus armed, but 
the Spaniard was using smokeless 
powder, and was practically invisible. 
The general commanding early discov- 
ered the danger incident to this black 
smoke and ordered a cessation of fir- 
ing, and to not fire again unless to pre- 
vent the escape of the garrisons in the 
block-houses. This was a bitter dose 
for our boys. They had come all the 
way from their Massachusetts homes 
to fight the enemy, and now they were 
held in reserve, all on account of an- 
cient munitions which shoul.l have 
been discarded years before. However, 
their disposition was good. They had 
not flinched an inch, and even then 
were quite willing to take all risks if 
onl\- they could use their archaic wea- 
p<nis. 

In some unaccountable manner, the 
battalion is so ranged that it is prac- 
tically at right angles to the main line. 
The heat is terrible. Any kind of 
shade is like the rock in a weary land. 
Private Rice thinks a small tree near 
by is just the place for him. and accor.J- 



ingl}' seeks it. Hardl}- had he gained 
the place when a liullet strikes so near 
that it would seem that it had started 
for him. He loses no time in getting 
back under cover, declaring that shine 
was preferable to shade. Pickets un- 
der Corporal Allison look out for both 
flanks. The situation is peculiar. In 
front is an artillery-swept zone. From 
the right and front the fire of the ene- 
my is coming, and. to crown all, back 
of the companies the 4tli United States 
is forming for an advance, and they 
fire as they move forward. They are 
to do just what the Second would like 
to do, and wdiat they would be doing 
were it not for their ancient outfit. 
Fortunately, the range of the Fourth is 
so high that no action arises, hut 
great credit attaches to Private Board- 
man of A, who, standing upon a knoll, 
swings his hat and shouts till he at- 
tracts the attention of the adx'ancing 
line, and so lets them know that there 
are friends between them and the foe. 
This act had lieen rewarded by special 
menti(jn had not the early death of the 
bra\'e bov prevented. 

The soldiers of the Second are loud 
in their praises of the colored soldiers, 
to whom should go many of the hon- 
ors of the campaign. They knew no 
such we)r(l as fear, but swept up the 
hill like a legion of demons, clearing 
the way of every obstacle. They rushed 
o\cr trenches, uj) to the block-houses 
through lea len hail, and thrusting 
their guns through the iron-barred 
windows, shot the cowering occupants. 
W'hen.on their return, they were asked 
why they didn't take some prisoners, 
one big trooper replied, "What you 
talkin' 'bout, boss ; we didn't come here 
to play l)asketl)all!" An<l so the fight 
went on. The taking of El Caney, 
which was to be accomplished by one 
brigade in an hour, reallv took a whole 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



47 



division ei<jht long hours of steady 
fighting', but it was done at last. 

Owing to the extreme heat of this 
July day, under a Cuban sun, the can- 
teens were soon emptied, and a detail 
was made from A to go back for a sup- 
ply. The squad, consisting of Privates 
Lamberton, Mills, Allison, Laflamme 
and Magee, under Sergeant ("lOwans, 
taking all the canteens they could car- 
ry, went back over a distance of fully 
a mile, and in the midst of bullets fly- 
ing in e\ery direction. Though they 
accomplished their mission and had 
started on their return, the}- were jier- 
mitted to go no farther than the field 
hospital, as it was stated that a gen- 
eral advance on the town was in prog- 
ress ; thus it was not till 4.30 p.m. that 
they rejoined their thirsty comrades. 
It was at this time that Major Fair- 
banks ordered A Company to deploy 
as skirmishers, to see that the field 
over which the firing had been done 
was free. Reporting the same clear of 
.Americans. Captain Capron trained his 
guns on the remaining block-houses, 
and in three well-directed shots <le- 
mc>lished them. 

The last shot was fired at 5 o'clock, 
and the privilege of returning to where 
the extra baggage had been left was 
appreciated, but there was not to be 
the opportunity for su|)per that the 
men desired, though the\- had eaten 
little from their early cold repast of the 
morning. Corporal Hobbs and his 
aids had kept away the buzzards and 
Cuban patriots, for our boys had grown 
to put them both in the same class. 
•Scarcely had the longed-for haversacks 
been found, and before their contents 
could be sampled, came the command, 
"Fall in !" and the march towards San 
Juan hill had begun. The Second had 
about-faced, and was now marching, 
with El Caney in the rear. The night 



is dark and the way nuiddy and as 
prickly as ever. It would aijjiear that 
the Dons had prepared an ambuscade, 
but their plans were revealed bj- the 
newness of the wire which glistened in 
the dim light. The boys must have had 
some queer reflections on the part 
which one of the chief industries of 
their citv was playing in this campaign, 
for go where they might they could not 
get out of sight or touch of barbed 
wire. Xow Worcester's busy and noisy 
mills made lots of trouble for Massa- 
chusetts men in Cuba. Many reflec- 
tions were due upon the government 
for the inadequate utensils which were 
furnished for cutting this obstructing 
wire. The pincers were more archaic 
than the guns, and that was quite 
needless. 

Blood-stained and mud-stained, the 
night's march was made, generally in 
double line along roads cut deep with 
artillery and commissary wagons. 
Some of the discomforts of "Our .Ar- 
mies in Flanders" are apparent, and 
possibly some of the language which 
rendered those armies famous was not 
lacking, but at last the welcome com- 
mand to bivouac is heard, and, supper- 
less as well as dinnerlcss, our boys 
sink to rest and to sleej), cc|ually indif- 
ferent to the past and future. 

The halting place was near an old 
stone bridge spanning the San Juan 
River, where those who sought found 
a drinking fluid, good for this coun- 
tr\', but the large majority were too 
tired to seek anything but rest, and 
sank at once into a condition akin to 
stupor. There had been no orders to 
bivouac, but the ever vigilant Captain 
was determined that every man 
should go under his blanket, as a pro- 
tection from the deathly night air of 
Cuba, a task, however, in many in- 
stances exceedingly difficult to per- 



48 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



form. Durinu;' this "in place rest" pe- 
riod, a train of nuiles Ijearingi supplies 
came up. and Company A's apprecia- 
tion of this much al)used animal's in- 
telligence grew amazingly, for he had 
to pick his way o\'er the prostrate 
bodies of the men. a feat that he skill- 
fully accijmpHshed. though in some 
cases he troil so closely to the heads 
of the sleepers that long hair kept the 
mule's feet tnit of the nui<l. 

It was at the extremely early hour of 
2.30 a.m. that the Com]iany was 
roused, so early, indeed, that many 
were willing to affirm that they had 
not been aslee]), but as the boys were 
not taking this excursi(.in for their 
health, they responded with the least 
complaint possible. Rations, some- 
what meagre in <|uantity, were dealt 
out, C(_)m])rising a bag of sugar and 
roasted coffee per man, and one box 
of hard-tack for the company, and 
there were just two minutes in which 
to open the latter. The contents <if 
the l)ox were soon apjiropriated, but 
much oi the sugar had to be left l:)e- 
iTind. As the movement was a retn/)- 
gra<le one, the reversing Ijrought 
Company .\ in the lead, whereas, the 
day before it had brought up the rear. 
Evidently the advance had met some 
sort of an obstruction, and this about- 
face was to oft'set it. The march be- 
gan in darkness so dense that each 
man had to place a hand on the one in 
front in (prder to keep in line. The 
dew, always thick and hea\y, made the 
ground as slip])ery as ice, while the 
men themselves were too sleei)y to 
sense where they were going or what 
they were tr_\dn,g to do. Had they been 
wakeful and the light sufficient they 
would have seen the rank undergmwth 
of a Cuban forest, but all this is Icjst in 
the nisfht movement. The regiment is 



within the zone of Sjianish fire and 
Ijlock-houses are abundant. 

This retrograde is, in reverse, along 
the route of yesterday's advance till 
the .^an juan road is reached near the 
"I'doody Uend." ( Ireat numbers of 
woundi'd men are coniing in to the 
field hospital. At (k_^o p.m. "Halt" is 
ordered anil the comniand goes down 
the line to lav aside the rolls and to be 
ready for action at an_\" m<:iment. Span- 
ish sharjjshooters. friim positions in 
mango trees and elsewhere, are mak- 
ing themselves dangerous to the.Vmer- 
icans. Using smokeless powder ami 
being eft'ectuallx' hidden in the leafy 
tops of trees, they plied their death- 
dcalingvocation with impunity, though 
occasionally they were detected and 
brought down without ceremony. The 
enenn- had little respect for the laws of 
ci\ilized warfare, and eyen fired on the 
I\ed Cross representati\es. who were 
aliout their mission of mere}'. Se\eral 
lost their lives in this way. The com- 
pany's position is on the extreme right 
and the advance is \-ery slow. Con- 
gratulations are exchanged over the 
apparent passing of danger, when or- 
ders are twice received to halt and lie 
fiat U]ion the earth to esca])e the bullets 
through low cuts in the hills. Noth- 
ing, however, dam])ens the spirits of 
the men, the same haxdng risen with 
the achancing sun, for with faces 
burieil in the grass and with bodies 
hugging the sod, yarns were sinm as 
if at a camp-fire, and jokes were passed 
along as though this were every-day 
work. 

At a lull in the firing, the advance 
was resumed and was continued for 
about two miles beyond the captured 
I dock-house, getting there late in the 
afternoon, whereupon a si|uad was sent 
back for the rolls left behind earlier in 
the day. Supper was prepared over 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



49 



small fires, made under the range of 
hills. There was \vi command neces- 
sary to drive the men to slee]>. and the 
veriest roisterer in the Compan}' was 
soon seeking "tired nature's sweet re- 
storer.'" Rut lilissful dreams were 
ru<lely broken at 10.30 p.m. ])\ crash- 
ing \dlle}S of musketry and the loudh' 
shouted orders of the officers, wdio 
dashe(l up and down the lines pressing 
their men into position. The music of 
the bullet was e\-i(lent as it sang 
tlirough Inish and grass, or "spat" 
against tlie trees along the river's side. 
The intense darkness added to the hor- 
rors of the night, and made the occa- 
sion seem even worse than the battle 
of El Caney. The attack lasted fully 
an hour, wdien the Spaniards retreated 
again, through their lack of system, 
drill or knowledge, having effected 
very little. 

The saying is an honored one that 
lightning never strikes twice in the 
same place, Init Company A men are 
still wondering that the onlv man in 
their ranks to be hit at all was struck 
twice. Peter X. White got his firs': 
stroke at El Caney, and in this night 
attack he was apparently reserved by 
fate for the only blow that A received. 
Lieut, riummer was the ofificer of the 
guard when the firing liegan, and the 
men were advancing under orders 
when W hite went down. Corp. Hag- 
berg was the first to discover him, and 
bent over the wouniled man to ascer- 
tain the trouble. This time, the ]>ri- 
vate, ha\ing learned wiMloni from his 
late experience, was not so certain 
about his condition, but the running of 
Capt. Barrett's hand around his neck 
revealed blood : then the cutting away 
of his clothing indicated the entrance 
of the bullet. Complaints on White's 
part as to some trouble near his hip 
brought out the fact that the missile 



hail come <iut there, llnis ;iccounting 
for what tlu- Capt;iin had thought a 
breach of discipline. .Strict orders had 
been gi\rn not to fire except as direct- 
ed, but Captain Barrett was much dis- 
turbed at hearing what seemed the dis- 
charge of a gun in his ranks, and he 
liad been using some of the language 
wdiich the occasion called for, when it 
appeared that the sound was owing to 
the explosion of three cartridges, ]iro- 
duced by the Spanish bullet as it left 
the wounded man's bodv. The wound 
might ha\e been a mortal one, since it 
entered the left shoulder and, after 
traversing the trunk, left, as stated, 
from the left hip. How it managed 
to escape the vital organs, only the 
chances that accompan}- gunshot 
wounds can tell, .\ gun stretcher, 
made from two guns and a partly 
rolled Ijlanket, was used to carry the 
private down the exceedingly steep 
hillside to the temjiorarv hospital. 
Tenderly as a Ijaby his comra<les bore 
him along with the utmost care, driv- 
ing their heels into the ground lest a 
slij) might throw him oft his blanket. 

July 3d was ushered in by a false 
alarm at 3 a.m., and again at 6 o'clock 
the men were roused, but those ap- 
proaching were founil to be Cubans 
rather than the foe. During this day. 
Private White is borne back to the di- 
vision hospital, six of his comrades, 
Cornwell, Hammond, Schofield, Tor- 
kels(jn, Abbott and Heywood, having 
been detailed for this purpose. As the 
entire journey of three miles was under 
the enemy's fire, no little credit is due 
the men for the manner in which they 
discharged their duty. They were 
more fortunate than some in their 
labor, for in several instances fatalities 
arose, bearers as well as those carried 
going dow^n in a cotnmon calamity. It 
is the consensus of opinion that Private 



50 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 

WhitL', ill case of another war, had when ])lenty is so near. One-third of 

better not take anv more chances. re.i^nlar rations is not a good support 

havint;- entirely too striivinti" an at¥inity fur trench-making. 

for l)ullet^. He was sliortly taken The next (kiy, or the 5th, brought its 

aboard one of the transi)orts and car- cwn surprise, for long lines of people 

ried to ( ieorgia. where, in I*"ort Mc- were seen moving out of Santiago, and 

Pherson ho>pital. he convalesced, till at first they might easily l)e taken for 

he was able to l)e sent home. cnhnnns of fcmrs on the march, but 

( )n this da\- began the long continued they were (juickly resolved into un- 
labors of the regiment in <ligging en- armed citizens of all ages, conditions, 
trenchments. using knives and plates ami 1 if both sexes, moving out to El 
in lieu of |iicks and shovels, just as the C'anex' tliat they might escape the 
fathers had done in the days of '61 -'65. threatened bombardment. The Com- 
The firing was light during the fore- pany had ])racticed considerably in si- 
noon, and at ID o'clock a flag of truce lent iiassing of commands, from com- 
was run up, the same flying more than missioned officers to non-commis- 
twentv-four hours. The day is also sioned. and they to their men. so that 
memorable in .\ annals, since it was when the non-combatants appeared 
(in the ,vl that Private Fischer, in his the word of alarm was given through 
rambles, fnund and appropriated a na- Lieut. Tisdell. who ha])pened to be the 
five burro or ddiikey. which l)ecame officer of the guard ; and the result was 
exceedinglv helpful in the toting of all that could l)e asked for, since in less 
water, and ( m the march he was a than four minutes every man was in 
burden-bearer of no mean cajiacity. ])lace. In these crowded days each 

AmericaV great day. July 4th. be- battalion had its own officer of the 
holds our bovs in the trenches, sub- guard and officer of the day. hence each 
mittingtii alternate sun and rain, both officer had to be on duty every alter- 
in the severest form. Parboiling is a nate day. 

word not inappropriate to re|iresent As hitherto, digging trenches is the 
their con<lition. The flag of truce is chief calling of the First Brigade, 
still up, and a further aihance of pos- and the Second Massachusetts is by 
sibU" two miles is made towards San- no means slighted. The chain of earth- 
tiagii, which now lies in ]ilain sight, works is a long one, extending from 
not more than _'ooo _\arils away, so ( leneral Shafter's headipiarters in the 
near fh.'it people can be plainly seen centre of the line, a long distance to 
as they go to and fro, while America's the right, terminating in a swamp made 
national colors, red, white and Itlue. 1,\ the shallowing of Santiago Harbor, 
are cons|)icuous in the stucco-co\-ered |f the men had been permitted to hold 
sides of the houses. The i>icture is an and occup\- the trenches they had clug, 
imiiressi\e one. and not e\'en the possi- the\ had felt better about it. but when 
bilitit's of danger from the nearby city they had. after great labor, fixed their 
can <tim the lustre rif the scene. Again defenses with all that the occasion de- 
rations are growing short. The abun- manded. including gunnybags. filled 
dance at Siboney is not helping these with sand, placed for embrasures, to 
hard-working, suft'ering men. and with lie obliged to give them u]) as they did 
one \dice the\- cr\' out against those in one case to the Se\enty-first New 
who needlessh leave nun in hunger \'ork, there was a draft r.jion the raw 



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51 




Frank E. Gale. 


Cha5. V. Lameeriov. 


Serc.t. .1a.= .T. Crl-iksh 


RuFus J. Martin. 


Chas. a. Barton. 


Albert Johnson. 


Philemon Brlle. 


.\rthur C. Magee. 


Herbert .\. Ballol-, 



52 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



material that they were hardly able to 
supply. The inadequacy of entrench- 
ing tools mav be seen when it appears 
that the entire regiment of above 900 
men had fnur sliovels and only one or 
two picks, while the near-l.)y regulars 
were well su])idied. The query will 
ever continue, "Who did sin?" that 
these honest soldiers were compelled 
to work at such great disadvantage? 

Luckv the man who had one of the 
coveted regulation tools, for the others 
must improvise their working material 
from haversacks and pockets. Case 
and ]iocket knife, plate, spoon, and 
even, as the last resort, fingers, na- 
ture's first weapons, were called into 
use. 

Under the fiery sun men must be re- 
lieved every ten minutes. Perspira- 
tion fairlv pours from the bodies, which 
have been divested of shirts, the men 
working naked to the waists. I'dis- 
tered hands are the rule, till callouses 
appear; bloody fingers, inider their 
primitive ordeal, are not uncommon, 
and many a boy wonders what the 
home f<dks wtiuld say if they could 
take a look at the scene. Something 
of a contrast from a drill-shed parade 
or an inspection on the I'ramingham 
camp-ground! Xight-work, too. is 
necessary, and this is done without 
lights and with only whispered words. 
When the welcome rests occur, the 
men throw themselves upon the ground 
with li.-ired breasts, grateful to the 
heavv, cooling- dew. utterly careless as 
to what the results may be. The 
nights are dark, mists api)earing to 
hide the very stars. .\t such times, as 
the men with naked, glistening skins 
labored in the trenches, fancy not un- 
reasonal)lv pictured them as ghosts 
rising from their graves for a midnight 
revel, and whatever Scotch blood there 
was in the company recalled Alloway 



Kirk and its display of "cutty sarks." 

The dawn of day would send the 
men, dripping and muddy, through the 
parallels to their camps, where, with a 
hastily eaten morsel of food, they 
dropped into sleep and forgetfulness. 

The 6th of July brought with it en- 
trenching for Company A until noon, 
when the men are ordered to prepare 
for an attack, but none came. At 3.30 
p.m. the colors of the Second are 
planted cm the breastworks. Later at 
their call, the officers assembled at 
headquarters and were there informed 
of the destruction of the Spanish fleet 
off Santiago Harbor. Nothing but ex- 
treme weariness prevents the enthus- 
ing which such an announcement mer- 
ited, l)ut these men. like all makers of 
histor)-, little realized the magnitude of 
the victory on that memorable Sunday. 
To crown all their misfortunes, the 
men had run against a wood poison, 
similar to the poison ivy of our north- 
ern states, and what was equally bad. 
they could find no antidote till some- 
one foun<l that common salt relieved 
the discomfort, but salt was as scarce 
as toliacco. The source of the evil was 
found to be a poison oak, the under 
side of whose leaf was covered with 
prickers which easily punctured the 
skin, and were the ])rime cause of the 
misery. 

The record for the /th is a short one, 
viz.: only trench-making and the re- 
cei])t of mail from home, the latter con- 
tril)uting its part towards the second 
half of the proverb, "Short and sweet." 

( )n the Xtli it woidd ap]>ear that there 
were no more trenches to be dug, and 
accordingly at an early hour Lieut. 
Tisdell with enliste<l men, Thomson. 
Clapp, Hall. Wills and Latlannne. leave 
cam]) for a trip to VA I'aney and the 
liattlefield of July 1st. The village, so 
often named in these cobnnns, is a 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



53 



small place of possilily 300 inhabitants, 
and it is difficnlt to imagine 20,000 
people crowded into its streets and 
houses, yet that is its condition under 
the influx from the threatened city of 
Santiago. Here is no distinction of 
person ; proud Castilian is pressed by 
the lowest type of Cuban negro ; here 
are all shades of complexion and every 
rank of society. Costume shades down 
from the richest fabric to rags, and 
from them to naked nature, but all are 
alike starving. Before reaching the 
hamlet our observers had seen the ref- 
ugees trying to secure food from man- 
go trees and such other sources as the 
forests and fields afforded. The ap- 
peals of these famished people were 
heart-rending, and no American 
haversack was proof against the cry. 

The plaza in front of the church is 
densely crowded, as are all the rooms 
in the town, and the incoming masses 
even dot the hillsides with their impro- 
vised camps. ' That there are still gov- 
ernments on earth is apparent in the 
banners of different notionalities which 
are flung out from several places, in- 
dicating the presence of foreign con- 
suls. There are no sanitary provisions 
and filth reigns indescribably. The 
stench is horrible, while the water for 
all purposes is taken from a stream in 
which children are bathing and women 
washing clothes. Such sights make 
our boys part with their rations all the 
more readily, for they were rapidly los- 
ing their appetites. Added to the fore- 
going sources of discomfort must be 
named the partially buried bodies of 
the Spanish soldiers slain in the fight 
of July 1st, whose reeking corpses 
were producing a condition that seem- 
ingly would speedily breed a ])lague. 
The stay in the filth-reeking village 
was none too long, and thence the boys 
sought the old stone fort east of El 




Caney, thence across the brook and so 
over the ground held by the Second in 
the fight. They visit the graves of the 
men of their regiment killed in the en- 
counter, and, at a late hour, make their 
way back to camp. 

The 9th of July is remembered on 
account of the visit received by Com- 
pany A from Captain Moynihan, Lieu- 
tenant McCann and several enlisted 



54 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



men of tlie Worcester Emmet ( luards, 
then ser\inn; in another part of the 
tiehl as Coni])any G of tlic oth Mas- 
sachusetts, I'. S. y. The handshakes, 
so far away frmii hnme, were hearty 
and sincere, an<l the inter\'iew was a 
Sjreen oasis in the desert of e\erv-day 
camp hfe. The first man to ,<;i i to the 
h(is|>ital frnni A Com])any on accnunt 
of iUness was \\'. (1. Cornwell, wln5 
went this ila\' sutterinij from rheu- 
matism. 

Sundaw the loth, lirou^ht \ery lit- 
tle iif the ipiiet home familiar tn the 
most of these hoys, but at 4 a.m. the 
reveille sounded, and an hour later the 
march he^an aijain to the riL^ht, a|i- 
parently nothing' less than the eircmn- 
ambulation of the citv lieinL; in store 
for the rejjiment. The orders for this 
start had been q-i\-en at inidnii;"ht in 
the most ipiiet manner to the (.'om])anv 
officers by the .Vdjutant. and the m}-s- 
terious way of impartiuL;^ them ,t;a\e 
the impression of somethint;- out of the 
ordinary impendinc:. Ho\\e\er, the 
march was continued till a railroad 
track was |)assed, when there was a 
slight swins,'- to the left, near an cdd 
sugar-mill, and there intrenching,'' bejjan 
once more. The Cubans had been there 
before the Second's arrival, but their 
work was scarcely better than the stir- 
ring up of the earth with sticks, but 
even that start did not fall to the lot of 
A and V , which conijianies ha<l to start 
anew. b'iring liegan at 4.43 ]).m., 
before the trenches were completed, 
but the men stuck to their work with- 
out faltering; indeed so careless had 
the men become that it was necessary 
to order some of them down from the 
top (jf the earthworks, wdiere, in their 
desire to see how the shells struck, 
they were needlessly exposing them- 
selves. Captain liarrett had the very 
sensible notion that a live soldier is 



\-;istlv more efficient than a dead one, 
however brave he might be. \\'hile 
the excitement is at its height groans 
are heard from the bushes in the rear 
of the line, and the cause is anxiously 
Sought with a fear that some one has 
been severely wounded. Something 
akin to disgust supplants solicitude 
when it is f(jund that the sounds pro- 
ceed from one of the boys who is suf- 
fering from an exaggerated case of 
stomachache, which his comrades aver 
he might ha\'e had at home or any- 
Avhere. 

The firing, which had died down last 
night at 7 o'clock, was resumed on the 
nth, but the enemy did not respond. 
There is a slight shaking u]) of cr)m- 
niands to-da}', on account of Major 
Southmayd's being invalided home, 
and L'aptain ISarrett becomes the tem- 
])orary commander of the .^il liattalion, 
and Lieut. Tisdell goes to the head of 
A Company. This is only for two davs, 
when the Captain returns to his own, 
but tile old Ijattalion is now numbered 
two. ( )nce more the regiment is mov- 
ing to the right, and on the way passes 
the conduit which furnished water to 
the beleaguered city. The Spaniards 
had been guarding the same with con- 
sideral)le care, for they realized the 
\alue of the water-supply to the peo- 
])Ie : liowe\er, fleeing on the approach 
of the -\mericans, the Cubans had 
rushed in and very quickly broken the 
cement |iipe through which the water 
ran. The result was a small water-fall, 
at which the soldiers were not slow to 
till their canteens and to enjoy the un- 
usual opportunity. The route is over 
hill and through dale, with the city of 
.Santiago ])lainly in \iew a large part 
of the time. The red cross, conspicu- 
ously disjdayed from so many of the 
houses, would lead the observer to 
think that the place was one vast hos- 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



55 



pital ; that the display was one big 
piece of duplicity were the safer con- 
clusion. At one time, rolls and haver- 
sacks were laid ofif and the impression 
was that business was ini])ending'. but 
nothing came of it. 

A halt is at last called and camp is 
pitched in a hollow, whence the city is 
visible, but hardly were the tents uji 
before the severest thunder-storm as 
yet experienced set in. The depressed 
condition of the camping-ground ren- 
dered the situation, all the worse, since 
the space became little better than a 
catch-basin, wherein the falling rain 
was detained. ■Meantime ratii.ms had 
been brought up to a place some two 
miles away and there ilropped. Five 
men were sent off fur the Company's 
share, but they returned too late for 
distribution that night. In the Ci>m- 
panv annals no more uncomfortable 
night is recorded. The thunder came 
like reports i)f artillery just at hand, 
and the l)olts of lightning fell so near 
and so constantly that it seemed that 
no one could escape. Lieut. Tisdell, 
with lower limbs swollen liy rheuma- 
tism, found it impossible to remain 
under his tent. and so sat the longnight 
through on a cracker-l)ox with back 
against a tree. Captain llarrett had ti.i 
spend a part of his time trying to hold 
up the ridge of his covering, and the 
earth became so thoroughly S(iake<l 
that it would not hold a tent-peg. With 
no rations, soaked to the skin, it is not 
strange that even the stoutest hearts 
among officers and men were for a time 
considerably discouraged. In this dis- 
consolate condition, orders to pack up 
came, and the rolls of tent and blanket. 
made all the heavier by rain, were 
taken up and the march proceeded. It 
led through roads, always bad, now 
ankle decji with mud, and so slippery 
that regimental orderlies sometimes 



measured their respective lengths in 
the slime as they hurried to their des- 
tinations. Notwithstanding the dis- 
comforts of the situation, the hoys had 
no difficulty in cracking smiles at such 
discomfiture. \\'hile the road seemed 
to be the very worst possible, even 
muddier fate awaited the boys in the 
swamp through which they waded, a 
sort of terminal of Santiago Harbor, for 
this day"s doings ended the circuit nf 
the city. General Ludlow and an en- 
gineer came uji and designated where 
earthworks were to be thrown up, and 
again the soldiers were dning the dig- 
ging act. The Spaniards were in plain 
sight, and it did not seem as though 
thev would permit trench-making so 
near at hand without, at least, a pro- 
test, and the work was started with no 
little apprehension ; but for some rea- 
son thev were silent, and the excavat- 
ing went on. day and night. Rain fell 
.so constantly that in some places the 
bovs dug in water nearly waist deep. 
Bv some means candles had been 
found, and under their flickering light 
the direetidu for night-work was 
gained. Just one Spanish gunboat had 
been left in the harbnr. and it was the 
constant wonder of the men that it did 
not open on them, for it had been the 
easiest thing in the world to blow them 
out of their trenches. Possibly there 
was fear of retaliation on llie part of 
the batteries wdiich General Miles had 
bnuight, and which were now admira- 
bly planted in positions to effectually 
shell Santiago on the least provoca- 
tion ; or possibly the enemy had done 
enough fighting to satisfy his honor, 
and he was only waiting for the con- 
venient moment to give up. .\t the 
right of the Second are the 8th and 
22d, and at the left, on a high hill, the 
4th Regulars. 

Rain falls every day, so that special 



56 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



r ■ -/^HH^^ <«fe*.- •».. .. 'jr^p^ 




iiU'iiticiii is miiu'ccssary, and when the 
sun shines between whiles the earth 
fairly reei<s. 'i'he ui)turninj;' nf the earth 
appears to release malarial tjernis, 
and the dreaded fever bec^'ins. but ex- 
tra precautions are taken at^ainst sur- 
prise. Parallels are run mit to the main 
works, so that the same can be reaclie;! 
without too much exposure. ( )n the 



[4th, there was the usual service in the 
water-filled trenches, waiting for at- 
tacks which never came. On the con- 
trary, at 3.50 p.m.. it was evident that 
somethinii- muisual was apiJroachingf 
from the left, and soon an orderly ap- 
peared statitig that the city anil its sur- 
rmmdings had surrendered. To shout 
and veil was the first thought of the 



CITY GUARDS, COMl'ANY A. 



57 



hearers, hut with tlie anm luiieenieiit 
came the re(|uest to make no denioii- 
stration lest the enemy should recon- 
sider his giving up. However, there 
must be some kind of a vent, and seem- 
ingly the covers blew^ off, for each and 
every hat went into the air. and swing- 
ing arms had to express what the 
voices lacked : but so apprehensive 
were all concerned of treachery that 
all the outposts were considerably 
strengthened that night. Howe\er. 
the most of the men felt that their 
work was just about done. 

^^'ith the cessation of enforced toil 
and the lessening of the strain came a 
physical letting-down which soon told 
on the men, and responses to the sur- 
geon's call became more numerous. 
The non-coming of mail also had a dis- 
piriting effect. The 17th was note- 
worthy in that the men were ordered 
to mount the earthworks and thus con- 
structively participate in the formal 
surrender of the city. At 12 m. the 
flag was supposed to go up on the Gov- 
ernor's palace, and a salute of twenty- 
one guns announced the auspicious 
fact. Immediately thereafter the com- 
pany marched to regimental headquar- 
ters, where a letter from President Mc- 
Kinlcy was read by Colonel Clark. 
Early in the evening seven transports 
came steaming into the harbor, and 
'"what next?" was in everybody's mind. 
Many thought a trip to Porto Rico was 
on the tapis, and, as the sequel showed, 
it had been money in our boys' pockets 
if they had gone, for then they would 
have escaped that long period of fever 
and partial starvation. 

On the i8th came the \\'orcesterTel- 
egram, latest date July 3d, and its ad- 
vent was hailed with cheers. Three 
men. Bruso, Torkelson and Hayward, 
were detailed to go over to El Poso 
and get the delayed mails. Nine men 



are 1 111 the sick-list. The next day. the 
diversion of digging being over, drill 
was resumed, and there were few days 
in which .\ Company didn't get some 
part of this essential feature of a sol- 
dier's life. So near is the camp to the 
city, the stroke of the public clocks can 
be distinctly heard. Captain Barrett 
has the distinction of being detailed as 
a road commissioner with the power 
to select his workmen at will. He 
enters upon his task w'ith so much zeal, 
repairs and builds so eft'ectually that 
in three days he reports his work ac- 
complished. General Ludlow can hard- 
ly believe the statement and sallies 
forth to inspect. After he had passed 
over one bridge so well made and so 
effectually concealed that he did not 
recognize it in passing, his incredulitv 
was ended, and he at once compli- 
mented the Captain on the thorough- 
ness of his work. Some of those 
bridges areyet in service in the swampy 
land. Xotwithstanding unfavorable 
criticisms from some officers and many 
men, the setting-up drill continues, 
and possibly the remarkable conditifMi 
of this company in the matter of 
health as compared with other com- 
panies of the same regiment may be 
ascribed to this same enforced exercise. 
On the 20th, Lieut. Tisdell is de- 
tailed to sit in a court-martial at bri- 
gade headquarters. The 21st brou,ght 
rations of fresh beef, which were high- 
ly appreciated. Also sugar was issued 
as the result of economy in the com- 
pany fund, the second expression of 
this sort, the first being small quanti- 
ties of rice and salt. Sickness is on 
the increase, and many of the poor fel- 
lows are seemingly losing their minds. 
It is difficult to rouse some of them 
from their stupor. When summoned 
for particular duty, they may rise, sa- 
lute with a vacant stare or grin, and 



58 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



then imniodiatcly lie ilmvii in their 
tents. The homesick feeling is gettini;' 
in its work also. Less than half the 
Comiiany res|)on<ls to drill-call on the 
22(1. and those who visit the surgeon 
hegin t" think that his pill-l)Ox con- 
tains f|uinine nnly: thus does history 
re])eat itself, for such was the experi- 
ence of these hoys' fathers in dark Re- 
1) el lion days. 

For the first time since leaving Ybor 
Citv. fresh bread made its appearance 
cm the 231I, luit the way it came was 
nrit particularly apiietizing. since the 
sevent\-se\en loaves were unceremimi- 
ouslv dum])ed upon the ground. The 
under loaves in this case were not un- 
der done. The fresh-beef rations hav- 
ing so far lost their freshness that sus- 
picions of age were all too rife, they 
were not taken with favor, but were 
forthwith buried. A hospital is im- 
pro\ised from an old railroad depot a 
quarter of a mile away. It has neither 
windiiws nor doors, and the floor is 
mother earth, but it iloes have a cov- 
ering. Death, which had so mercifully 
spared amidst the battle-shock, now 
became a constant \isitor, though he 
took none of Company A. Taps over 
a soldier's grave with following volleys 
of musketry became so common that 
the men grew horribly depressed at 
the soun<l, and it seemed that honors 
to the dead were likely to destroy the 
li\ing, till orders were gi\-en to bur\- 
the departed comrades without si.nmd 
of gun or bugle. It was no uncomlmon 
sight, in near-by companies, to see a 
non-conuuisNioned officer peering into 
a tent and then with hurried step to 
seek lii> captain or lieutenant, wdio 
would quickly \isit the same tent, and 
then after a hasty glance, with sad 
face, tie down the fla]), indicating that 
another sjtirit had lieen released. 
To what must be ascribed this Com- 



panv's inuuunity froni actual death]' 
Xot luck, surely! To begin with, it 
had the advantage of a full list of com- 
missioned ofticers. These men had 
been in command or service a long 
time and were excellent disciiilina- 
rians. At the time many exactions 
seemed harsh, and jjossibly worse : nor 
did they escape severest criticism, but 
wdien the results of abstinence, drill 
and self-denial became evident, those 
who decried loudest were equally 
decided in their approbation. Much, 
too, must be allowed for the brotherly 
spirit which pervaded the company. 
An\thing that any one could do for 
his fellow was none too good. Never 
will the boys cease to remark on the 
devotion of their comrade Israel, wdio, 
when he began to convalesce from his 
own serious illness, kindly volunteered 
to remain and to try to soften the rigors 
of the situation. The dishes that he 
prepared from potatoes and condensed 
milk (piickened many a failing appe- 
tite and perhaps saved lives, for the 
hospital was utterly destitute of every 
luxm-v. There was no lack of sincerity 
when the sufferers voted him an Israel- 
ite indeed, one in whom there was no 
guile. 

It was at this time that the Cajitain 
learned that Clara P.arton, the Red 
Cross angel, was in Santiago, and 
knowing her jilace of nativity, he con- 
ceive. 1 the brilliant notion of writing 
her a letter, which he sent in the hands 
of Private Higginbotham. As the lat- 
ter tells the story, the scene was one 
for an artist when he communicated 
his mission. Tears were in her eyes 
as she said. "Do you mean to tell me 
that Massachusetts boys are suft'ering 
thus in our very vicinity.^" For Clara 
r.artou to realize a need was to set 
about tilling it. and it was not long be- 
fore the messenger drew up in front of 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



5!) 



l„^/-^"^r^-'^-^'^'-^:-'7-^\- 



-<y-^ C 



-V "^' ^-^~'^-^' 







Camp of Company A Before Santiago. 



tlie company with a two-wheeled Cu- 
lian vehicle, carrying all it would bear, 
viz., a barrel of Quaker oats, a 230- 
pound bag of corn meal, two boxes of 
malted and one of condensed milk. 
After leaving a fair portion for those 
on duty, the remainder was sent to the 
hospital. Cots were sent later. There 
is an impression that the philanthropist 
drove by quite near their camp, but 
the Worcester soldiers had no oppor- 
tunity to express to their fellow coun- 
ty-born the gratitude they felt for her 
kindness. 

Also the company was fortunate in 
having in its ranks two druggist 
clerks. Private ]\Iorse was the very 
ne.xt thing to a doctor and he was al- 
ways to be found. Very soon after the 
surrender, he made a prescription, or 
several of them, for the Captain, that 
the latter might have on hand a list of 
most needed specifics. Captain Barrett 
went into the city and had his lists 
made out and then demanded the cost. 
Having been told that the whole out- 
lay ought not to be more than ninety 



cents, he was nearly paralyzed at the 
reply "Five dollars." Evidently this 
was not a case of the invader spoiling 
the land. Init (|uite the reverse. .Says 
the Captain. "What do you mean l)y 
charging me such a price wdicn you 
know it should not cost one-fifth that 
sum? Xow }Ou can take one dollar 
or I will order in my men who are close 
by and they will clean you out." 
Though there was many a shrug of 
displeasure, the Don preferred his dol- 
lar to dispossession. 

There are those who remember how 
funny that khaki blouse of Captain 
Barrett looked. It was pocketed all 
the way round. No one knows just 
how many it contained, but there 
seemed to be nothing in the way of 
supplies that it was incapable of fur- 
nishing. One man who had accused 
the officer of marching in li.ght array 
had occasion to lift the garment once, 
whereupon he remarked, "I'll never 
accuse you of carrying light weight 
again." On occasion he could produce 
from the mysterious depths of that 



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same coat rhubarb and (luinine pills: 
doses of castor-oil ; arnica, ammonia, 
cholera medicine: and there was a 
precious jjint flask of brandy whose 
contents could lie sampledonlyasa final 
resort, and then only under the strict- 
est surveillance. So carefull_\- and judi- 
ciously were the lirandy dr()])S dis- 
pensed that when the boys reached 
home there were just three swallows 
of the li(|uid left. The company also 
possessed a stretcher which it had no 
occasion to use for itself, but it was 
frequently loaned. Moreover, there had 
been preparedanumber of small bi )ttles 
with close-fitting stoppers, and within 
were bits of paper upon which the 
names of anv memlier dying cnuld be 
written, and the same, place<l with the 
remains, would afford indubitable iden- 
tification when efforts should be made 
to return the body to Massachusetts. 

Monday the 25th brought the Wor- 
cester Telegram and measurements for 
new suits of khaki, and the valuable 
fact that Company A had the lowest 
percentage of illness in the regiment. 
The next day. Captain Barrett and 
IJeut.Tisdell went into town and also 
paid a visit to the transport Knick- 
erbocker, the one (in which the trip to 
Cuba was made. While on board, the 
Captain was attacked with viident ill- 
ness, and for a time it seemed as 
though he CDulil not leave the boat. 
Knowing full well Imw his absence 
might be misinterpreted, he determined 
to get back to his company some way. 
The Lieutenant had gone on, and when 
the shore was reached Capt. I'.arrett 
was so ill that he was wholly incapable 
of walking. In this strait he luckil\- 
descried the Colonel's colored cot)k, 
who had ridden a mule into the city. 
Wishing to remain for a time he was 
particularly anxious to get the animal 
backtocamp. Fortune favors the brave, 



and by an exchange of services, the 
Captain rode back to his own and the 
cook had his animal safely restored. 
Twentv men are reported ill. 

The 27th, Privates Allison, Hall and 
I.aflamme were sent over to the com- 
missary headquarters to buy tobacco 
an<I canned goods for the Company, and 
late in the same day, .Vllison with Pri- 
vate Young was detailed for five days" 
duty in the city. The month of July 
dragged its weary length along with 
few variations save as new men went 
to the hospital and a less number of 
convalescents returned, and wherever 
such a case was noted, due credit was 
given to Comrade Morse and his in- 
valuable medicine-chest. The non- 
commissioned officers of the Company 
were efficient men, and all agree that 
1st Sergeant Allison, though small in 
stature, was large in deeds, and, though 
his own brother was in the Company, 
so absolutely impartial that the latter 
thought, in the matter of detail for 
extra work, he would have fared bet- 
ter were some other man orderly, 
ddien there was Corporal Ralph Alli- 
son, who was also company clerk, and 
he was as steady as a clock in the pur- 
suit of duty ; but he was badly sold one 
dav, when demands were made for the 
crack shots of the Company and the im- 
l)ression was had that the nicest kind 
of work was needed. When the Cor- 
poral returned from his labors he re- 
marked that the next time shooters 
were wanted diggers had better be 
sent, since it was a shovel he had to 
use instead of a gun. Commissary 
Sergeant Poland, in the Cuban days, 
was sometimes regarded rather unfa- 
vorably by the boys, particularly if 
special favors were wanted in the way 
of rations, but a retrospect shows how 
absolutely just and impartial he was 
in all of his distributions. He saw his 



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61 



duty, and he did it. The very last day 
of the month brought small bitsi of ice 
for the hospital inmates, secured by 
the Captain, and a degree of comfort- 
able weather quite unusual for Cuba. 

Had the boys of Company A lieen 
aware that August, whose first day 
came in fair and warm, would end 
their service in Cuba, there had Ijeen 
more smiling faces than there were 




when the runmr was circulated that 
])eace had been declared. So many 
times had they lieen deceived by 
Dame Rumor, they declared this. too. 
was only a "Jojo" story, devised to 
keep up the s]iirits of the hcimesick 
soldiers. Ajiparently there were some 



who could tind no better amusement 
than in devising yarns which might 
catch the ears of the unwary. As this 
story was preceded by a deal of cheer- 
ing, even the most incredulous began 
to fancy there might be something in 
it. However wrong in principle, there 
can be little doubt that these fake rumors 
had a beneficial effect, for hope, which 
is said to spring eternal in the breast of 
man, hadwellnigh died out of the hearts 
of many of these Massachusetts lads. 
The fever which reigned in their veins 
had seemingly burned out the better part 
of their minds, and the\- would lie help- 
less upon the ground. or, if ablelo stand, 
would reel like drunken men. Their 
eyes were sunken, their cheeks hollow, 
and one might doubt if his best friend, 
tlnis suffering, knew him on meeting. 
What a blessing it was that not every 
one was thus sick at the same time, else 
there had been no one left to tell the 
tale. Going down to the very brink of 
the dark river with almost a touch of 
its lethean flow, they would slowly 
ccmie back to take up the duties of a 
soldier's life, and to bear a part in the 
care of those on the downward slope. 

Rain or shine. sick or well, there were 
few days'when the Company did not have 
a taste of drill, which the old German 
'i Colonel thought was the real end of a 
soldier's existence. This necessity of 
doing somethinghad its part in the Com- 
pany's escape from the actual presence 
of Death. Idle hands are provocative 
not only of mischief, but of other ills 
as well. For several days no rain is had. 
and its absence is agreeable, but the sun 
shines with increasing fervor. Postal 
facilities improve, and almost every day 
somethingin the mail line gladdens the 
eyes of the men. Xor are rumors want- 
ingthatthe departure is at hand. While 
the Guards do not succumb to the grim 
destroyer, almost ever)- day sees some 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



jxior hoy's remains laid awa\- in the 
i^rave. Some doubtless thou[;-ht of the 
rhymes, familiar in lioyhood's davs, 
from "The Jiurial of Sir John Moore": 
"No useless coffin enclosed his breast. 
Nor in sheet nor in shroud we bound 
Iiini. 
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest. 
With his martial cloak around him." 
.\t the hest. only a lilanket or half of a 
shelter-tent is devoted to enwrappin.^' 
the cla_\' n(_nv to molder hack to kin- 
dred earth. 

Auo:ust moves .slowl_\- al(_>n,L;- with few- 
variations. Alen are .qoing- to the hos- 
pital and retnrnins; thence, and all are 
wondering" what they are staying for. 
The eighth day brought the paymaster, 
and compensation fortwo months. Then 
the chief lacking was a place where the 
payinight be profitably spent. The sur- 
roundings afforded nothing, and there 




mf^-%:i'^~-u 



.'U 







,^lf 



"\'k Mkave Orderly" and General LeoLow. 



was not even the old-time solace of a 
sutler with his hi gh-i)riced conmiodities. 
( )ne might wonder where the chaplain 
of the Second was during all these try- 
inghours.but the records appear singu- 
larly silent as to the ofifices of this gen- 
tleman. Ifhewerethe ministering angel 
that army clergymen are sujjposed to 
be. nothing of his deeds reached the 
ears of Company A, but over in the 
Twenty-second Regulars was a chap- 
lain who had the ears and hearts of his 
men, irrespective of creed. The ])riest. 
Father Fitzgerald, though his faith was 
foreign to that of most of the men in 
the Sec(/nd. his coming was hailed with 
api)lause and gratitude, for they knew 
how faithfully he had luinistered to 
the boys in their suffering. 

it was during these days that Col. 
John F. Marsh of Springfield, and later 
Halleck Bartlett of \\'orcester. visited 
the cam]) on ( ;ood Samaritan errands, 
but somehow the former's ministrations 
did not appear to reach many of those 
sup])ose(l to be interested. Indeed, one 
soldier of A Company says: "All the 
lemons and other viands we got. we 
stole." There is nothing so direct nor 
C(]nHiiendable as militarv frankness, 
tliiuighthise.xtenuation maybe ofl:"ereil. 
that the soldier usualh- discriminated in 
his reaching after things. ( )n the loth 
<lay there came to Colonel Clark an 
order that was better for sick men than 
any medicine possil)le. It was to the ef- 
fect that on the next day or that follow- 
in,g the Sec()n(hv(juld start for home. The 
bugle-call summonin,g the ofticers to 
heailipiarters ,ga\-e added weight to the 
news. This day came the khaki imi- 
forms. f( ir which measurements had been 
made in jidy. That they might be well 
oft" with the old before thev were on 
with the new.order.s were gi\en that all 
the cast-oft" clothing .should be burned. 
If this order had been literally obeved, 



CITY CiUAKDS, COMPANY 



fi3 




from y a.m. tn 5 (I'dock in thu aftur- 
iioon, the iiicii had Ik-cii all hut naked, 
for the clothing did not appear a.s early 
as expected. One of the absurdities, in 
this enforced burning, was that all 
inider-clothing was retained so that 
fever germs were still on hand. How- 
ever, consistency was ever a jewel that 
very few possess. When the new khakis 
did come, there was a general stripping, 
and bonfires were started, into which 
war-worn garments were thrown. This 
destruction of apparel was not on ac- 
count of the presence of the peculiar 
curse of army-life, viz., vermin, for the 
rule of cleanliness had been (|uite too 
generally enforced for this calamity, but 
that there might be carried to the States 
no trace of yellow fever, the dread of 
all hot climates. Though the Second 
was encamped for some time in its final 
location, the camp was so thorough!}' 



|i'>lire.| and the tents s. . c. .nstantly 
.liri'd and stirred up that the l^cdlcidlis 
corporis found no lodgment — a fact 
which the fathers of these young sol- 
diers claim remlers their arnu- expe- 
rience much less varied than that of 

The departure from this land <.f the 
palmsliouldnotbemade without further 
reference to the sufferings of the men 
from causes which seeminglx- might 
!ia\-e been a\dided. h'or instance, was 
tlierenot someway to gi\e tlu' sick men 
Setter accommodation than the old 
railroad station aliorded? Windowless. 
with leaky roof, it kept out ver\- little 
of the wind and rain. .\s for doctors, 
there were scores, hundreds of men in 
theStatesanxious to hel]) here, but thev 
had no chance. Both Surgeon llowen 
andAssistant Surgeon Hitchcock were 
themselves in hospital, where Bowen 
died, and Second Assistant Gates had 
beenidetailed for duty in one of the reg- 
ular regiments, so that for two days the 
Second was without any medical attend- 
ance. W hen .Surgeon ( iates did return, 
he did all that mortal man could do. and 
forhis workthe men can ne\er be grate- 
ful enough, nor A\ill they forget the 
Contract surgeon, who also seeminglv 
thoroughly sensed the situation, Otifi- 
cers and men did all they could to have 
the luxury of a bath, but i)laces had to 
be sought with diligence, (iuards were 
stationed to prcxent the defiling of 
those streams whence drinking water 
was secured, so men would go off in 
pairs to find some trickling rill, and, 
collecting the drops in canteens, would 
take turns in pouring the contents over 
their respective persons. All the time, 
from any elevation the sea or harbor 
was in sight, and why were they not 
permitted to take reviving dips therein? 
As with Lord Dundreary, this is one 
of the things no "fellah" can find oiu. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



The famous Round Robin episode is 
recalled wherein the heads of regiments 
protested against certain action, and 
the difference between regular and vol- 
unteer officers became apparent when 
the former would say, "I hope you will 
do all ^•l)U can to prevent the sending 
of the men l)ack into the hills. \\'ith 
you it will make no difference, but 
with us it means the loss of position in 
our wa\- upward. If the men gi) to the 
hills, few if any will ever return." 
Fortunately the men did not make the 
trip to the interior, and the epidemic 
of vellriw jack was avoided. 




If Com])any A at any time had a 
mascot, it was wlun the Ixiys came into 
possession nf a Imrru which, like all 
beasts of her order and se.\,was known 
as Jennie. She was the most useful and 
[)atient of animals, ami, under the care 
of I'rivate Mills, became a marvel of 
helpfulness. Water had to be brought 
some distance, so with characteristic 
ingenuity the manager of the cara\an 
had fitte.l up a saddle, u]ion wliich the 
Ijovs could hang their canteens, and 



thus caparisoned the procession of 
donkeyanddriverwouldset forth tothe 
watering-place. While the soldier was 
fillingthe canteens, Jennie was allowed 
to roll, crop the herbage, and disport 
herself as she chose. When again load- 
ed with her watery burden, she would 
return to camp in the steadiest of jogs, 
with the loss of never a drop. In camp 
she was a general pet, and would eat 
hardtack like an old campaigner, .\s the 
currying of her hairy coat was a gener- 
al diversion, she became exceedingly 
sleek and fat. Had there not been an 
orlerforbidding the taking on board of 
all animals, save officers' horses, the boys 
would have devised some means to 
bring their Cuban friend home with 
them. .As it was, she l)ecame an invalua- 
ble adjunct to Lieut. Thnnmer in his 
subsequent stay, and, finalh', she was 
given to a Cuban boy who had been 
helpful and useful al)out the camp and 
hospital. The boys tell, with great 
gusto, the story of Jennie's failure to 
sJiow u|) one morning and the conse- 
(|uent C( msternation. The disappearance 

--of Santiago itself could scarcely have 
disturbed them more. Had some envi- 
ous company or regiment stolen the 
beast? Search-parties were organized 

, at once, and most diligently was the 
neigliboring region scrutinized. It was 
the Captain's good fortune to find the 
lost animal cliisely wound up in her 
hitch-rope, and so interlaced with 
bushes and undergrowth that she had 
inevitably starved had not the discovery 
been made, Thehurrah whichannounced 
lennie's return was similar to that 
which acconijianies the h(_)me-coniing 
of a search |)arty with the joyful shout, 
"Tile child which was lost is found." 
.\ugust nth saw the camp in all the 
liustle of preparation to leave. How 
hap]>v the boys were over the thought 
of seeing home again. Every heart 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY 



65 



pulsates more rapidly and appetite 
quickens with visions of\Vorcester and 
her well-spread tables. As the Captain 
and his lieutenants see the sun go down, 
they remark, "It is the last time we 
shall see the sun disappear over that 
cursed hill." But at that very moment 
there was in the Captain's possession an 
order commanding one of his associates 
to forego his home-returning, and to 
remain in Cuba to look after the wants 
of the sick who could not then be 
moved. Thinking the Lieutenant would 
rest better with the thought of going 
luime in bis mind, the special order was 
withheld till the morning of the I2th 



prevent the introduction of yellow 
fever into the United .States. .As the 
days went on, his horses died, ami he 
could get no more; then Jennie, the 
donkey, worked in and she was verv, 
very useful. The Lieutenant had a 
small pocket Bible, which became very 
much like a prayer-book in his minis- 
trations over the dead. Graves were dug 
by the Cubans, who would accompanv 
the officer in his placing the departed 
in the ground, but being very supersti- 
tiiDUs the least rustle of a leaf became 
to them the presence of disembodied 
spirits, and they were off at once, leav- 
ing the lone soldier to his gruesome 




. G. Standish. 



Geo. E. .\llison. 



after breakfast. Then Lieutenant 
riummer had his fate anudunced. Like 
a true soldier he took his orders with- 
out a grimace, and only said, "If or- 
dered to remain, I shall sta\- and do my 
duty." That he did his dut}- most ef- 
fectually, every one at all conversant 
with the facts agree. Before the regi- 
ment had departed, he had appropriated 
all the regimental and hospital tents, 
and had the poor fellows from the rail- 
road-station apology for a hospital car- 
ried into them. The design was to have 
those too weak to go on the trans- 
port detained, that they might follow 
on the hospital boat ; also to carefully 



task : but he, stout of heart, would read 
over the grave words from his holy 
Iiook, and then return to his quarters, 
which each day grew more lonely. Cer- 
tain men were detailed from other 
companies to remain with Lieutenant 
Plummer. The torture to which these 
soldiers were thus subjected was akin 
to that which Tantalus and Sisyphus 
underwent. From all sides, both in his 
own company and from others, come 
continuous praises of the way our Lieu- 
tenant did his duty. Like Jim Bludsoe 
in the rhyme — 

"He see his duty a dead sure thing. 
And he went for it tliere and then." 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



It was carh- in the morning of the 12th 
that tile ciininianil was given for all to 
fall in wli.i tliMuoht th-y could stand the 
trip home, and it must redound tn the 
credit of Company A that not a man was 
missing from the ranks exccjit Private 
Fairbanks, wdio was absent on duty. and 
certain ones who had been sent home. 
Though many hacl lieen nn the sick list, 
andeven then were very shaky 1 in their 
legs, not a man had yielded to the arch 
enem_\-, but each and every (ine ciiuld 
still answer, "Here." TheN' march over 
t(i headquarters, where they are in- 
s|)ected by the surgeon, who finall\- de- 
cides that Fischershould remain fur the 
betterappointmentsof the hospital boat. 
Still there are men who can not endure 
the march tn the docks, so thev are car- 
ried in arniv wagons, and e\'en then 
some (if them faint in transit. It was a 
sorry looking lot of men who marched 
away from the camji of so many days. 
Hollow-eyed.yelli iw-skinned,and limp- 
ing along, they must have excited the 
astonishment of the ijihaliitants as they 
went through : and therr would lie little 
wonder if some .Spaniards, among the 
onlodkers, did not reproach themselves 
over the thought that thev had surren- 
dered to such a sickly-looking crew as 
these departing Americans were. 'I'heir 
way into town was over the road that 
their own ingenuity and industr\' had 
built, and o\er the roughl}' paved 
streets of the city, the_\- come to the 
wharf, only to find that the lighters are 
not on hand, having had already the 
carrying of the other regiments of the 
brigade to the transport Mo1)ile, which 
drew too many feet of water to admit 
of her approach to the dock. I'.ut 
ever\ thing comes to him who waits, 
.•md at last, by means of the "Laura 
.•md 1 lessie."( 'ompany .\ nears the ves- 
sel, liut as usual there was something 
between the men and fruition, for a 



flat-l)oat is trying to get rid of its loail. 
though with indifferent success. There 
was Lieut. Vesper, too sick to help 
himself, and his men, too feeble to help 
him. b'rom Company .-\ the cry came, 
"It's u]) to us to do this job" ; and thus 
intrusting their guns to near-by com- 
rades, men enough jumped on board the 
craft, tied the Lieutenant into his chair, 
and with two men ahead and two be- 
hind he was elevated up the ship's side, 
andthewaywas soon luade clear for the 
contents of the "Laura and Ilessie." 

On Ijoard the Mobile, the story of the 
Knickerbocker was in a measure re- 
peated. There was lack of preparation. 
The two regular regiments had had the 
pick of places, andthere was left for the 
Second only second or third choice. 
Still Yankee ingenuity did not entirely 
fail them, and they finally, b_\- purchase 
or otherwise, secured cpiarters not the 
worst possible. The sick-bay was on 
the first or upper deck in the after part, 
and its covering afiforded scant protec- 
tiem from rain, which frequently fell in 
tijrrents, while the sun at times beat 
down upon the men most pitilessly. 
Hammocks were given out as far as 
the^• would go. and then men wdni had 
mone^^ and all had been recently paid, 
ma<le dickers with the crew, so that 
some hail as good as the best. In the 
same way man_\' improved their food- 
rations. The fare for the sick was not 
adapteil to their wants, and they had to 
take the regular rounds of hardtack antl 
canned stulT, or nothing. The men fre- 
(piently had not strength to brush ott 
the dies which settled o\-er their faces. 
Those who cared for the sick were only 
a bit better off than their patients. 

The grand start for home is made on 
the 13th, and dinner call is unheeded in 
theanxiety of the men to take a parting 
look atSantiago — "St. James"the word 
is in English vernacular — but there is 



CITY CX'AKDS, CO.MI'AXV A. 



67 





nothing saint-like in the reflections of 
the men of the Second as they steam 
away. Through the neck of the bottled- 
iip harbor the Mobile passes, close to 
the sunken Merrimack, c\i(Icnce of 
Lieutenant Hobson's l:)ra\-ery. near the 
wrecked Reina Mercedes, trophy of th-j 
deeds of July 3d, and on yonder frown- 
ing height is El Morro, grim reminder 
of days when such battlements were de- 
fenses. Xow, armed with her guns of 
century make, the furt is scared}- l:)et- 
terthan a curiosity sh(i|). The next day, 
as they steamed almig towards home, 
there is seen in the distance a trace of 
smoke, which sucm de\-elops into a ves- 
sel, and, from the l>lackene<l clouds 
which come from the stacks, it is evi- 
dent that she ismakingsteam. The con- 
dition of peace negotiatons was not 
known on board, and the English cap- 
tain had no relish for a Spanish capture, 
so he calls fi)r help tn cr(:)\\'d in the coal 
in his own furnaces. The same is readily 
given b_\' the men, hut the stranger has 
greater sjjced and raj)idly overhauls, 
though he is in such a directiim that his 
colors can not be made out. At 'last 



there comes from his bnw a ])nff of 
snidke, but the MobiU' does ncit slack- 
en ; then fiilliiws a snlid shot, and, in 
firing it, the direction of tlie bnal is so 
ehanged that the Star sp.Lngled I'l.-mner 
is shiiwn. The .Mnhile slows down as 
\ isidHs (pf a Spanish prison disajipear, 
• indas tiiegunliDai " \'ankee"ciimes near 
IS heard the call, -Who is it?" W hen 
due answer is in;ule the .Mobile's cnm- 
|>any learns that their pursuer has on 
board a contingent ofthe Massachusetts 
\'a\al -Militia, so with a hearty exchange 
of Bay State cheers the vessels separate. 
Company A had no intention of going 
hungry, and Captain Uarrett gave Iiim- 
self entirely to the help ami comfort of 
his men. .\ little judicious use of I'ncle 
.Gain's currencymadehim solid with the 
cook, hence wdien the boilers were not 
otherwise employed. they were making 
soup for Company A. To get the same 
to the boys without e.xciting the sus- 
[licions of other companies, was the 
chief trouble. When the prciper time 
came, a coujjle of men Avoidd ;ip|iroach, 
and, covering their wash-boiler of soup 
with a rubber blanket, they would qui- 
etly get back to their own, bearing also 
a fresh biscuit for each man. all this 
being so much extra in their regular ra- 
tions ;thusinuch for care and foresight. 
In this home-coming there was no 
sound so dreaded as that cif three bells, 
when the vessel stopped, and all knew 
that some poor bodv was to be con- 
signed to the deep. It was not a long 
])ause, but chills ran through forms not 
accustomed to fear at the thought, "The 
next lot may be mine." In this way the 
Worcester bovs saw the body of their 
staunch friend and crimrade of Company 
C. Harry !'.. Wentworth. disappear. 
Could it be possiljle that his stalwart 
frame had wasted away till scarcely 
more than a skeleton was committed to 
the sea? On the fourth dav out all that 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



was mortal of Lieut. A'csjier. win mi 
Company A boys had helped aboard, 
was given an ocean burial. With rations 
good and bad behind them, with their 
campaign on foreign shores ended, late 
in the afternoon of the i8th of August 
land is sighted, and our 1>oys see again 
their nati\-e slmre. Never did it look 
dearer, and it were not strange if there 
were some stern resolves to never 
leave it more. Peace settles down <in 
troubled si mis, and to Cajitain r»arrett 
the sight is particul;irly ecmsoling, fur 
now he can lay aside his cares and take 
the first sciuikI sleep that had fallen 
upon his eyelids since the departure 
from Santiagii Harbur. "Uneasy lies 
the head that wears a crown." 

The morning of the 19th of August 
revealed the eastern extremity of Long 
Island. X. Y.. known in geography as 
Montauk I'oint: and an unobstructed 
sight of any part of (lod's country 
ga\e satisfaction to the fever-stricken 
soldiers, but an immediate landing 
was out of the i|uestion, since a hunt 
for vello\v-fe\er symptoms must be 
had before tciTa ftnna can l)e touclieil. 
As a preliminary all the men are drawn 
up in line near their respective quar- 
ters. an<l i|uarantine physicians care- 
fully inspect each jaundiced \-oyager. 
b^irtunately. Company A re\eals no 
suspect, so all may go ashore as far as 
the \ellow danger is concerned, ^^d^ile 
tile inspection is in ])rogress. Cajjtain 
I'.arrett. realizing how anxious the 
folks at home would be to know how 
the hoys had endured the return trip, 
wrote certain words upon a strip of 
])ai)er and, wrapping the same around 
a silver d<illar, threw the missile to an 
apparently honest ])arty. with the 
statement that he might retain the 
change after forwarding the message 
by telegra]5h. This telegram was to 
Mrs. Barrett in Worcester, and was as 



follows: "Every one in Company A 
alive. Please notify papers." This 
message, received and given to the 
local press, was the very first intima- 
tion that Worcester had of the condi- 
tion of the returning Company. ( )n 
this day. only the sick left the boat, but 
papers and letters from home and the 
outside world were received. 

The 20th brings the real debarkation, 
and as usual when anything of the kind 
was to be done, the Captain of A Coni- 
]iany liad the task of superintending 
the unloarling. Selecting men from 
each company, and with forty steve- 
dores, the work was begun, and pro- 
gressed steadily till, at 4 p.m., every 
man was ofif the boat. Those unable 
to walk had fieeii sent forward in wag- 
(jns, and the trans]iort itself was swept 
and garnished in an unusual manner. 
Recognizing the merit of the work, the 
skipper of the craft made a present to 
the Captain of a nice cane-seated deck- 
chair, a utensil highly apjareciated in 
the following days of ]\lontauk sta\-, 
though Captain liarrett had little time 
to occupy it hiniself. At 4 o'clock, the 
last load was started for camp, and 
"good-by" was said to the Mobile. De- 
tention camp iiiav have been a mile 
from the landing ])lace, but in the 
men's condition the distance seemed 
niucli greater. Confusion ruled su- 
]ireme, ami few a|)pliances necessarx' 
to camp life were at hand. The tents 
were small and insufficient, while the 
elewated site of the camp ga\-e the wind 
full sweep, a libert_\- it was not slow to 
take, and. coming as it did at a temper- 
ature fre(|uently as low at 65 degrees 
l'"ahr.. it ]ilayed lia\oc with boys ac- 
climated to the torrid 100 degrees and 
o\er of Cuba. Had the government 
sent the transport to some southern 
port and thus accustomed the return- 
ing invalids gradualh-. ver\ likelv men 



CITY (;r.\KDS, COMPANY A. 



69 




Corp. A. C. Tho.m 
Sergt. E. R. Ri 



Arthur C.llA 



Thomas H. Hammon 



might be alive to-day who then suc- 
cumljed to tlie strain. As it was. man_v 
of those who lived are. after these 
nearly four years, still hacking and 
coughing- from the hrdnchial troubles 
engendered by the easterh- winds of 
Long Island. 

Remembering nature's first law in 
the matter of self-preservation, certain 
thoughtful members of "A" became the 
possessors of a complete Buzzacott 
outfit which had been duni])ed from the 
wagons. It was true that it did not 



lielong to them, but what biH)led that 
so long as it was in use, and tised it 
was constantly. Soon after arriving in 
camp, there was a distribution of beef, 
and the Captain, with Private W'eixler, 
set about preparing a meal of tooth- 
some qualit}- for the men. so that be- 
fore 7 ti'clock every man in the com- 
pany had had a piece of steak, a boiled 
potato, and a cup of cofifee. They then 
set about the preparation of a soup for 
breakfast. In the midst of their work 
they were inspected by certain soldiers 



70 



WORCESTER IN THE SPAXISH WAR. 



not i)f "A," wliii. in wliisprred words, 
declared tlieir lielief tliat the cookino- 
outfit was theirs, and also their deter- 
mination to capture it when a good 
chance offered. To jjrevent any such 
calamity, the plant, when the soup was 
cooked, was moved into a tent, and a 
half dozen of the men stood guard over 
it, readv to "fight till the last armed 
foe expired," rather than surrender a 
drop of soup or an ounce of the appa- 
ratus. The name of that jolly old 
rebel, (ieneral Joe Wheeler, was given 
to the camp, and the men proceeded to 
make the best of their quarantine. 

For four (lays they were detained in 
this place till, through their failure to 
develop the yello\\' scourge, it was 
deemed safe to let them jiass out. 
During this time the Ca])tain of the 
City ("luarils was appointed lirigade 
police inspector, i. e., to look after the 
cleanliness of the camps, and it was no 
small honor for a captain of xdlunteers 
to be thus designated when there were 
two regiments of regulars in the bri- 
gade. \T-rv likel}- General Ludlow re- 
membered some of the Captain's work 
in Cuba, and knew that this duty 
would be done with the same faithful- 
ness. H(.iwe\er, his directions were re- 
ceived and executed with the utmost 
alacritv, reipuring in only one instance 
a cpiotation of regulations to let the 
regular Major understand that the in- 
spector knew wdiat he was about. ( )ne 
of the tantalizing features of the deten- 
tion was the nearness of visiting friends 
and \ et tlieir impassal)le distance. As 
with the soiulu-rn prisons of the Reliel- 
lion (lavs, there was a so-called dead- 
line, ;icross which only ( leneral Ludlow 
and the police inspector could go. Long- 
distance talking was indulged in, how- 
ever, and kodak possessors shot over 
the line, the impression received 
through photograjihy not being con- 



sidered contagious. ( )n the last day in 
this jilace Captain Allen of the flight 
Infantry, who for some time had been 
in \\'orcester on account of illness, 
came to the regiment, bringing with 
him a goodly array of lioth solid and 
li(|uid refreshments, which he shared 
not only with C Company, Init with all 
the \\'orcester l)oys. .\lso this da}- 
there was another examination made 
by the physicians, and some men were 
sent to the hospitals and thus prema- 
turelv h(;)me, but at this date it is fair 
to conclude that they acted in accord 
with their lies: judgment. 

( )n the 24th came the orders to leave 
quarantine, and the men were nothing- 
loath to obey. Packing up was soon 
done, and then they marched away. 
The sudden change from the heat of 
Cu1)a to the cool air of Montauk did 
not produce the effect desired ; on the 
contrar\- n-iany n-ien sickened <:|uickl_\-, 
and dvsenterv, malarial and typhoid 
fevers were very con-imon. Captain 
rSarrett had to look after his own men 
in the removal, and also see that the 
camp was left in a proper condition. 
To this he suiiposed he had given 
proper attention. Avhen he was accost- 
ed l)v a young man, ])ossil)h- a recent 
AW-st-l'ointer, riding a horse and pro- 
claiming himself an assistant inspector. 
He wanted to know who had the polic- 
ing in charge, and was informed that 
he was addressing that officer himself. 
Whereupon there was an exchange of 
civilities, in which our Worcester Cap- 
tain lost none of his dignity nor stand- 
ing, but the young Lieutenant did learn 
that even a grailuate of the military 
academy may be at times just a bit 
fresh. The upshot of the n-iatter was 
that the assistant informed theCaptain 
that he slKiuld report hini for derelic- 
ticin and incivility. \\'hen General 
Ludlow incpiired of Cajitain Barrett 



CITV GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



71 




concernint;' the interview, he was 
speedily satisfied that his young officer 
had displayed zeal without knowledge. 
There are only two days of stay in 
the general infantry camp, but on the 
25th come Lieutenant Liicke. D. D. 
McTaggart, George W. Hul)l)ard and 
Luke Davis, all from Worcester, the 
last named being the father of cme of 
the company, and Mr. Hubbard was 
known to all as the long-time care- 
taker of the Armory. There are so 
manv rumors of departure for home 
that few can enjoy the really comforta- 
ble appointments of the camp, nor the 
food which bv contrast seems to be 



actuall}- luxurious. .Mr. McTaggart, 
formerlv one of the (niards. took pic- 
tures of the company, simie of whose 
members had changed so much that he 
did not recognize them. Also the reg- 
iment marched before a biograph, and 
for aught the men know, in some far- 
awav museum, they are marching still. 
All the arms and ammunition of the 
soldiers were turned over to the bri- 
gade ordnance officer, and those thus 
giving up their guns were not a little 
delighted at hearing the officer say that 
theirs were the only ones in the regi- 
ment returned in a fair condition. 



72 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 

If tlu' ik-parturc of the Worcester seemed to be tlie nicest of chicken 
contingent had lieen thns far the most sandwiches, but not one did she ofifer 
momentous e\-ent in its histor\-, then to him. Finally he mustered up cour- 
the story of the 27th of August was to age to ask her what she' purposed do- 
crnwd it hard, since this was the day ing witli the contents of the basket. 
I 'f the home returning. "Let ncit him "Why," said she, "I am giving them to 
that girdeth on his harness l)oast him- the poor soldier boys, just l)ack from 
self as he that |)iitteth it oft." .\s early Cuba." "Well," says oin" doughty nffi- 
as 4.30 a.m. some in the camp were cer in his most melancholy tone, "What 
astir, and for his breakfast each man is the matter with giving me one, for 
had tAvii boiled eggs, bread and butter T was in Cuba?" Imagine his feel- 
with a cup of coti'ee. Then standing ings when the good woman responded, 
in front of the fire the Captain gave to "Oh, no, you couldn't have been there, 
each man a <lrink of porter or whiskey. for }'ou are too fat." How little sym- 
Thus supplied it was with almost a path)- rotund people receive on their 
springv step these malarial poisoned way thrc mgh the world ! 'Tis said, 
lads set out for the steamer Pdock however, that the Captain convinced 
Island, almard which they went at 7 the Good ."^amaritan that he had suf- 
a.m., an earlv start, l:>ut necessary, if fered with the boys, and so captured 
the close of the day were to see the his sandwich. Boarding the north- 
men at home. Lieutenant-colonel ward-bound train, the Second Regi- 
.Shumwa}' and Captain Barrett attend- ment was en route for home via 
eil to the loading of the boat, and at Palmer, .At the several stojis through 
7.43 she steamed away from the wharf the Land of Steady Habits, the hospi- 
with her prow directed towards Xew tality of many ccmiing on the train, 
London. however well meant, was in some in- 

The Connecticut city was fully alive stances of that excital)le nature that 

to the situation, for a sea of faces the dispensing of licjuids had to be for- 

greeted thet arrixal oi the steamer, and bidden, though cofifee and milk were 

among the dwellers in the city were not considered contraband, Generos- 

many who had come down from Wor- ity even reached the pitch of passing 

cester to accomiiany the boys home, around cigars. At Palmer there came 

among them General Fred W. Wei- a separation of the regiment, part 

lington, whose stalwart proportions going to the westward, while the Wor- 

drew from an onlooking citizen the cester companies turned towards the 

words, "I'.\' (ieorge! there is a man east. 

who stood the campaign well. He .\t state line, where the imaginary 

doesn't look as if he'd Iieen in Cuba, boundary separates Connecticut and 

does he?" .\'or were the attentions i>i Massachusetts, Governor Roger Wol- 

thc good ])eople confined to e.xpres- cott came aboard, anil it was a par- 

sirjus of sympathy, for they knew that ticnlarly pleasant thing for him to thus 

hearts arc often reached through the welcome home the survivors of those 

stomach, hence the baskets well filled whom, a few months before, he had 

with the finest of food, ( )ne lady in reviewed upon their Framingham 

l)articular had repeatedly fiitted past campground. Passing through each 

the first officer of .\ Company, and he car he gave the boys a chance to know 

had noticed the presence of what that he had not forgotten them. At 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 




R.II.Br.gham. ii.c.Gro 

James A. Cole. 

rainier tliere was a larq-e delegation of 
\\'orcester friemls with more refresh- 
ments. It really began to look as 
though the people of the sister states 
had begun to think the boys hollow to 
their heels, and some of them were re- 
duced to the condition of that news- 
boy at the charity dinner who could 
chew, but couldn't swallow. Among 
the visitors were Dr. A. C. X. Petersen, 
Dr. E. H. Trowbridge, Lieutenant 
Liicke, Harrv Merritt, and others. 
Not only did they l)ring food, but they 
Ijrought waiters as well, whose duty it 
was to antici])ate ever_\- want of the 
returning soldiers, while the ]di\si- 
cians looked after the sick. 

It was at 3.45 p.m. that the train 
rolled into Union Station. Everybody 
in Worcester who could a:et there w'as 



present to see the boys come home. 
How pleased they were ! Even the 
long-enduring lions, that for more than 
a quarter of a century have borne the 
burden of the wondrous arch, were ob- 
served to change countenance as the 
^^'orcester boys debarked. The multi- 
tude was in a rapturous mood, and 
was read}- to cheer and take each boy 
to its heart, but when the yellow- 
skinned, emaciated forms appeared, 
the shouts died upon the lips of the 
crow-d, and sound gave place to tears. 
Carriages had been secured for such 
as could not march, but Company A 
had decitled to walk, cost what it 
might. On the waj' down from Palmer 
the Captain had mounted a seat, and, 
stating the situation, closed by saying, 
"Xow, boys, I propose to walk; how 



74 



WORCESTER IN THE Sl'AXISH WAR. 



is it with \iju?" With a mighty cheer 
tliey viitL-d t(i a man to follow their 
Cai:>tain. Thus when the train was de- 
serted, the line of march was taken u\> 
through the familiar wa}s, never look- 
ing dearer than m.nv as the_\' are re- 
tnrning from the field of danger and 
honor. rVgain thev are preceded by the 
dulcet strains from the liattery P. Band, 
while, as of yore, the ( i. .V. R. and the 
Siins of \'eterans act as escort. At 
Salem S(|uare, ISatter}- P. salutes them 
with twenlv-one guns, and now, if 
never before, they are sure that they 
are of age. ( )f the sixty-se\-en men 
who on Ma\- 3d marched away, there 
are fiftv-four now in line, all who are 
not in hospital or for some reason left 
behind. Lieutenant I'lummer, with 
Pri\ates h'ischer and Fairbanks, were 
left in Cuba; Artificer Clap|), with 
Privates Forest and Torkelson, are at 
Montauk in the general hospital, while 
Sergeant Saw\-er, with Privates Chris- 
tenson and Israel, are in the <letention 
camp hospital at .Montauk. 

It is a sympathetic mass of humanity 
that stri\-es for just a glance of the re- 
turning brave. "Johnny" was truly 
marching home again, but he was ne>t 
coming in the manner outlined in the 
song. The bo)s were ready to shout, 
the men to cheer, and the ladies had all 
turned out, but these parboiled, hol- 
low-eyed, limping objects were not the 
beings they e.xpected to see, and how 
could the throng "feel gay" though 
really and truly "Johnu}-" was march- 
ing home. Slovvl}- and with halting 
.step the march was made, and, though 
the flag \vas there and the music beat 
upon the air and the cannon thundered 
their greeting, somehow the return did 
not me;iMn-e up to what had been writ- 
ten and spoken, over and o\-er again, 
"when the troojis come marching home 
again with glad and gallant tread," 



Yet every being in that welcoming 
crowd of citizens was rejoiceil to his 
heart's core that the Imys had reached 
home once more, and only regretted 
his inability to take each fever-racked 
body and breathe into it the fire and 
energy with which it was filled when, 
four months before, the men had de- 
parted. Though pressed u])on b}- the 
multituile to the iJoint of obstruction, 
though in man_\- cases every step was 
fraught with pain, not a man fell out, 
but each one stuck to his place till the 
Armory was reached, 

\\'hen the familiar structure was 
gained, each company was dismissed 
to its respecti\e room, and soon Com- 
]ian\' .V is in its own : then follow the 
greetings and the congratulations and 
the leave-takings, for Americans sepa- 
rate easil}-. The Captain, who had not 
been awa}' from his men a day in their 
wdiole serx'ice, speaks a few words of 
good-l)\-, till with liroken voice, over- 
come bv his emotion, he had to cease, 
though he did manage to ad\-ise his 
lo\al followers to avoid inunediatel}' 
o\er-eating and drinking", and alwa}-s 
a desire tcj live on their reputations. 
Then the bovs ga\"e their cherished 
leader three royal cheers, and the day 
was ended. Pefore departing for their 
homes, a brief meeting was held to ar- 
range for the ap|iroaching anniversary, 
but as the men were without e(|uip- 
nients, the annual observance was 
gi\en nil, and with propriety, for they 
had alread\' a memorable celebration. 
Macks had lieen provided to carry the 
wearied soldiers to their homes, Imt 
over the reception accorded each valor- 
ousson within the privacy of the domes- 
tic circle, the ])ublic has nothing to do, 

.\ sixt\- days' furlough was the boon 
gi\'en to the men. and they made the 
most of it, though there were some who 
could not wait the end thereof before 



CITY (lUARDS, 



iMl'.WV A. 



75 



einliarkini;' updii some enter])rise, so 
inapt is the average American to a life 
of idleness. Though ever}- man had 
returned alive to America, Seiitendier 
3d, one of those who had come l)ack to 
Worcester passed over to the mainrity ; 
too feeble for the Armdry inarch, he 
was driven home at once, liunry lleau- 
doin, known in the company as Hoard- 
man, the soldier who had won distinc- 
tion at El Caney, much to the grief and 
surprise of his comrades had sickened 
after reaching Montauk, and so sur- 
\'ived his home-coming only a week. 
A deputation of the Company at the fu- 
neral was the least that the sorrowing- 
friends could send in memory of one 
whom they loved. September 30 came 
news that George Leon Forest had died 
in St. Peter's Hospital, I'lrooklyn. of 
typhoid fever. Over his remains, which 
were sent to Worcester, his comrades 
paid their compliment of presence and 
recollection. He had been a good and 
faithful soldier, and all laniented his 
earlv death. 

A variation in the general trend of 
affairs is hail when, furloughs having 
expired, cm the _'4th nf ( )ctober all 
hands are ordered to report at the 
Armory for a term of duty there. For 
ten days they are to resume the rou- 
tine of a soldier's life, with the conces- 
sion of a choice between sleeping there 
or at home, but all must be on hand for 
roll-call. Landlord Robert Kessell of 
the City Hotel has been employed to 
supply meals, and it does not look like 
a very severe round of duty to which 
they are introduced. For seventy-tive 
cents per day for each man he sets an 
excellent table, and for the nonce the 
boys almost forget Cuba and its "prime 
canned roast beef." The duties im- 
posed were not arduous, consisting 
principalh- in roll-call, standing guard 
within the Armory, and an occasional 



drill, the latter exercise counting as 
cine cif the cardinal ^•irtues in the mind 
iif the t';iptain. Uuring the inter\al 
between the return and tile muster-oul. 
the officers aderpiati'ly beslowed the 
time in making out the rolls, account- 
ing for property, etc. 

.\o\-embcr 2d there was a nieeting 
of the C'iimpan\' tn consider \-arying 
jihases of the ])ropiisecl mnster-init. as 
tci ])a\-. etc.. Init from the gathering 
nothing came, since the gcivernment 
took the ei-itire matter into its nwn 
hands, aiul did Avith the men as it liked. 
( )n the next cla}" came the minnentou> 
trip to Springfield. The train was 
takei-i in L'nion Station at 6.33 a.m. At 
9 o'clock came a parade of the regi- 
ment, which was reviewed by the Go\-- 
erniir and staff, the INIa^-or of Si)ring- 
field. and the city government, thus 
gradually reaching the auspicious mo- 
n-ient of final and efifectual release, 
which came to Company A at 11.20 
a.m. in the Howard Street Armory, our 
Citv ( inards being the \-ery first to re- 
ceive their muster-out at the hands of 
Lieutenant Edmunds eif the L'nited 
States Army. 

Thus ended the nearly si.x months of 
ser\ice for the nation. The men went 
to Springfield as soldiers, each and 
ever}- one under authority ; they re- 
turned as citizens, owing obedience to 
no one or thing save the general laws 
of the land, but very likely to be better 
men for the discipline of service. The}- 
took a stipulated morning train under 
orders ; they returned when they chose. 
The City Guards had done their duty, 
had responded in the day of national 
peril, and while there was no long roll 
of casualties upon the I:)attlefield, each 
man felt that he had done his duty, 
and that the campaign of 1898 in the 
Spanish \\'ar had added to the laurels 
of Worcester in w^ar. 



76 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




William 


E. Cardin. 




Joseph H. Board 


«N. 


C. \V. Weixler 


Ceoroe 


I.. Forest. 


Corp 


11. R. Fay. Lew 


IS ^L Fay. 


(J. F. Thomas. 


rouis(X 


; TANDISH. 




J. H. Lowell. 




A. ^L Wills. 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



77 



THE DEAD IN COM PAX V A. 



Though not a man in the Company 
succumbed during the Cuban cam- 
paign, tribute had to be paid, and he 
upon the white horse appeared among 
the Guards at last, thougii his work 
was not so severe as in the other com- 
panies. At this time, October, 1904, four 
men have answered the final roll-call : 

Joseph Henry Boardman, son of 
Aimable and Alary Beaudoin. was in 
normal condition when the regiment 
came home, but he immediatel\" sick- 
ened and died September 3d. He was 
born in \\"i)rcester, May 12, 1S75. and 
at the time of his enlistment was in 
the employ of the JNIatthews Manufac- 
turing Company. His real name, as in- 
dicated, was of French origin and was 
Englished on his enlistment for greater 
convenience, though the Gallic word 
recalls an early governor of the Com- 
monwealth ■\vhose ancestors changed 
the same word from Beaudoin to Bow- 
doin. The funeral of the brave }-oung 
man was had from Notre Dame 
Church, and was attended by a detach- 
ment of ten comrades under the com- 
mand of Captain Barrett and liy a fir- 
ing squad from the Fifth Regiment, 
then in camp at Framingham. The 
burial was in St. John's Cemeter}-. 

Lewis M. Fay was the son of W'il- 
liam W. and Alattie A. Fay, a native of 
Brookfield, J\Io., according to his en- 
rollment. Both he and his brother were 
residents of \\'(ircester when they en- 
listed, their hcinie being on Chandler 
Street, .\fter the war the family re- 
moved to California, hoping to stay the 
indications of pulmonary disease which 
had already made their appearance in 
the younger brother. But even the 
mild climate of the far-famed land of 
sunshine could not restore the health 



of Lewis, and on the very last day of 
the year 1901, he passed away in the 
city of Monrovia, and there his Ijody 
is buried. 

George Leon Forest. Fie was another 
young man of French extraction, the 
son of Hormisdas Forest, and his earl_\- 
da\'s were sjient in the town of Oxford, 
where he had the advantages of the 
public schools, including the high. 
Thence he came to Worcester, and 
after a course in Ilinman's business 
College, he worked for Johnson & Bas- 
sett : Barnard. Sumner & Putnam Co. ; 
for the N. E. Telephone Co., and last 
for the Cereal Food Co. on Jackson 
.Street. He had been in the Company 
twi) years when the war began, and 
naturally he was among the early ones 
to volunteer for the fray, ^^'hen the 
Guards returned he did not come with 
them, having been sent to St. Peter's 
Hospital in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he 
died ( )ctol)er I. at the age of twenty- 
two years. When in the city he was 
conspicuous in several organizations. 
])articularly the Y. M. C. A., in whose 
l)asketball team he was the star actor, 
being its captain and, in the language 
of the physical director, the best player 
in the city. His funeral, at St. Joseph's 
Church, was numerously attended, and 
among those there were twenty-five of 
his own comrades under the command 
of Lieutenant Plummer; also Lieuten- 
ant-colonel Shumway ; Secretary C. A. 
Fenner of the Y. M. C A. and Director 
Wilder. 

Sergeant Edward Robert Riedl was 
of (German extraction, though he was 
born in Worcester August 12, 1870, the 
son of Matthew and Louisa (^^'eidner) 
Riedl, both of whom had come from 
Germanvrthe father from Bohemia, the 



78 



WORCESTER I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 



nidther fnnn W'urtcnilicrjj;. 'I'hc son 
was reari'il in this city and had the 
most of his school Hfe on Thomas 
Street, under the excellent care of Mrs. 
Wait, the long-time principal of that 
school. He had long- been in the em- 
ploy of Lopan. Swift & Brigham as a 
shipper; also he was an old-time mem- 
ber of the Guards, and, as his positir)n 
would indicate, was a favorite among 
his comra<les. Seeds of consum]ition 
were sown diu-ing the Cuban sojourn, 



and on his return he did not rally, but 
grew steadily weaker, until death 
ended his sufferings October 21, 1000. 
At the time of his death he was stay- 
ing in \\'estboro with Edward I'ldler, 
in the delusive ho]ie, as it appeared, 
that he might regain upon the farm the 
strength he had lost. A member of 
St. John's Episcopal Church, his fu- 
neral was held there, attemled bv 
man}- of his late comrades, and the 
burial was in Hope Cemetery. 



.AT PRESENT. 

The following is a list of members Musician Walter A. Traver, \-alen- 

connected with the companv during tme factory. 

the war. and, as far as possible, the Artificer Samuel F Clapp, machinist. 

. , \\ agoner \\ alter 1 . llruso, traveling 

present resnlence and occupation of .^lesman. Fitchburg. 

each man. Cnless otherwise stated, Private Herbert IS. Abbott, U. S. A. 

the state is Massachusetts; the place, Private George E. .\llison, machinist. 

Worcester : Private Herbert A. Ballon, paints 

Captain Edwin G. Barrett, boot am 
shoe merchant. 

First Lieutenant Moses H. Tisdell, t, 1 , tt ,> ■ 1 

salesman rrn'ate Ralph H. l.righam, art store, 

'second' Lieutenant William H. Southbridge ; Captain, Company K, 

Plummer, b'irst Lieutenant. Sixth C. S. ''*';■ ■^'- ^ ■ /,'•., , ,, 

l„f.,„t,-,, I'ru-ate rhilenion I'.rule. moulder. 

iIlld.IILl\. 

First Sergeant Walter H. .\llison, 
Torrey Razor Shiip. 

Sergeant Charles A. Poland, last fac- 
tory. Church Street. 

Sergeant John G. (iowans, i)a])er- 
hanger. 

Sergeant b^lbridge l). Sawder, elec- 
trician, Everett. 

Sergeant James T. Cruikshank-, me- 
chanic. 

Corjjoral Ral|ili L. .Mlison, iraxeling 
salesman. 

CorporaL\rcliie \\ Mm-ray. machinist. 

Corporal John (i. Hagberg. Legisla- 
tor, immigration inspector, St.John.X.B. 

Corporal Howard K. Hoblis. regis- 
try of deeds office. 

Corporal Herbert R. Fay. laundry, 
San Diego, Cal. 

Corporal .\lexander (';. Thomson, 
clerk, Newp<irt. R. I. 

Musician I'rederick C. (lagnon, 
clerk, drn<>- store. 



and oils. 

I'rixate Charles A. Barton, electri- 
cian. 



Private John T. llrusky, steam- 
litter. Providence, R. I. 

Private William E. Cardin, photog- 
rapher. 

I'rix'ate Elmer 1. Christenson, L". S. 
.\rmy. 

Private James A. Cole, l:)lacksmith. 

Private Henry G. Coley, clerk, boot 
and shoes. 

Private llenjamin Cooper. car]iet 
factory. 

Private William G. Cornwell, ma- 
chinist, Xew London , Conn. 

Private ( )rlo W. Davis, trucking. 

Private I-Tank L. I'airbanks, col- 
lector. 

Private Charles A. Fischer, clerk. 

Private Ouincy E. Fortier. druggist, 
Charlestown. 

Private h'rank E. Gale, foreman. 

Private Rali)h C. Green, clerk, 
market. 



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79 



Private Henry 
Pjoston. 



C. Grover, artist, 




Private Ernest P>. Hall, electrician. 
Private Thomas H. Hammond, U. S. 
Armv. 



P'rivate Frederick R. Mays, clerk. 
T'rivate .Arthur L. lleyward. U. S. 
-\rniy: was in China. 

Private Cliarles S. 
1 lisfsfinhotliani, foreman, 
Ansonia, Conn. 

Private Simon Israel, 
dry goods, Westboro. 

Private Albert John- 
son, machinist. 

Private \\'alter R. 
Johnson, niotorman. 

Private Joseph T. La- 
flamme. printer. 

Private Charles F. 
Lamberton, tinsmith. 

Private Julius H. Low- 
ell, baggage master, Cot- 
tage City. 

Private Arthur C. Ala- 
gee, Worcester Fire De- 
]iartment. 

Private Rufus J. Mar- 
tin, driver. 

Private Arthur G. 
Mills, machinist. 

Private William E. 
Moody, American Steel 
X: \\'ire Company. 

Private William H. 
Morse, druggist. 

Private Frederick G. 
Xewell, electrician. 

Private.Albert J. Rein- 
bold, salesman. 

Private Wm. W . Rice, 
niotorman, Charlton. 

Private Walter E. 
-Schofield, I'. S. Army. 

Private William M. 
.Severy, pool-room. 

Private William E. 
."^herman. machinist. 

Private James W. 
Smith, teacher, Porto 

Pri\ate .Arthur T. 
.Squires, conductor. 

Private Louis O.Stan- 
dish, L'. S. Army; one 
of those who scaled the 
walls of Pekin: machinist. 
Private William G. 
Siandi>h. machinist, Boston. 

Private Ouinc\- F. Thomas, ma- 
chinist. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



Private A\'illiaiii S. Ycning. stereo- 
typer. 



Private Reinhard A. Torkelson, 
U. S. Army. 

Private ^\'illiam T. Turner, carpet 
factory, Denver, Colorado. ■ 

Private Samuel A. Wallace, shipper. 

Private Carl W. Weixler, machin- Ci)uld the Frenchman, ] )e Rdchani- 

ist, Quinc}'. beau, who helped uuv people in the 

Private Bert E. W' heeler, driver. days of the American Kexulution, read 

Private Peter X. White, ^^^orcester the foregoing list, all the more might 

Fire Department. he exclaim, "In .\merica, no men are 

Private Alfred AI. Wills, machinist, soldiers by trade, but men of all trades 

Nav^• Yard. Charlestown. are soldiers." 



]\IrsTER-iN Roll of Co.mpaxv A, zn RE(',niENT of Infantry, Mass.\- 

fllUSETTS \'(.)Ll'.\TEERS, L\ THE SeR\"ICE OF THE U.XITED STATES, FOR TwO 

Years, from AIay id, i8g8, l'nless Soo.xek Discharged. 

[The data, in order, cover rank, name, age, birtliplace and occupation.] 

CAPT.MX. Alexander Gray Thompson, 24, Fall 

Ri\er, clerk. 



Edwin Grant liarrett, 20, Springfield, 
shoe dealer. 

first lieutenaxt. 

Moses Henry Tisdell, 40, St. Paul, 
Canada, foreman. 

SECOND Ll ErTEN.\XT. 

William Henrv I'lunimer. ^2. Lons- 
dale, R. I., 'clerk. 

SERC.E.VXTS. 



MUSICIANS. 



Frederick Charles Gagnon, 24, W^or- 

cester, druggist, 
\\'alter Allen Tra\-er, 21, New York, 

X. Y., painter. 



ARTIFICER. 



Samuel Edward Cla])]). 24. -\thol, 
mechanic. 



W AC.OXER. 



iupper. 



I'KI\'.\TES. 



Walter Henry Allison, 28, Worcester, Walter Tainter llruso, 30, Worcester, 

razorsmith. 
Charles Addison Pidand, 26. Xi:>rth- 

boro, last-maker. 
Edward Robert Riedl, 2~. Worcester, 

clerk. 
Jdhn (jeorge Gowans, 30, Dundee, 

Scotland, woodworker. 
Elbridge Boyden Sawyer. 24. ( )range. 

electrician. 
James Titus Cruikshank, 28, Somer- 

ville, driver. 



Ci_)RPORALS. 

Ralph Livingstone Allison, 2^. Wel- 
lington, Conn., shipper. 

Aidrie Frank ]\Iurray, 25, Worcester, 
Ijarber. 

John (iustaf Hagberg, 24, Dayfush, 
Sweden, tailor. 



Aldjott. Herbert Burr. 18. Bangor, .Me., 

teamster. 
.\llison, George Edwin, 30. A\drcester, 

mechanic, 
r.allou. Herbert Arnold, 22. Worces- 
ter, clerk. 
Barton. Charles Allen, ic), Worcester, 

electrician. 
Boardman, Joseph Henr_\-, 2t,. \\'orces- 

ter, pressman. 
I'.righam, Ralph Hulibard, 30, \\'or- 

cester, salesman. 
Ilrule, Philemon, 22. Worcester, 

moulder, 
lirusky. John Thomas, 20, Xorth 

Brookfield, steamfitter. 



Howard Knowles Hobbs, 24, Aul)urn, Cardin. William Ellsworth. 21. WOr- 
clerk. cester, photographer. 

Herbert Ruggles Fa_\', 23, Brookfield, t hristenson, Elmer Ingomar. H). Cam- 
Mo., laundryman. liridge, machinist. 



CITY GUARDS, COMPANY A. 



81 



Cole, James Albion, 21, Worcester, 
blacksmith. 

Coley, Henry Green. 23. I!irmini.;liam, 
England, clerk. 

Cooper, Benjamin, 20, Kidderminster, 
England, weaver. 

Cornwell, William George, 22, Holden. 
mechanic. 

Davis, (")rlo ^\'illiam, 24, Wcircester, 
mechanic. 

Fairbanks, Frank Lamson, 18, Wor- 
cester, machinist. 

Fay, Lewis Montague. 20, Brooktield, 
laundryman. 

Fischer, Charles Augustus, Port 
Henry, X. Y.. clerk. 

Forest, George Leon, 23, Oxford, book- 
keeper. 

Fortier, Ouincy Edgar, 23, Water- 
bury, \'ermont, shipper. 

(lale, Frank Eugene, 22. Lowell, 
clerk. 

Green, Ralph Clayton. 26, New Au- 
burn, Minn., clerk. 

Grover. Henry Grossman, 28, Brook- 
field, student. 

Hall, Ernest Boynton, 28. \\'orcester, 
mechanic. 

Hammond, Thomas Harr\-. 20, Tonga- 
noxie, Kan., steamfitter. 

Ha\'S. Frederick Robert. 20, Worces- 
ter, clerk. 

Hayward. Arthur Leon, iij, Ci.mcord, 
X. H., woodworker. 

Higginbotham, Charles Samuel, 25, 
\\'altham, diemaker. 

Israel. Simon. 24. S\"ewelk, Russia, 
clothier. 

Johnson, Albert. 24, .Stockholm, Swe- 
den, steamfitter. 

Johnson, Walter Reynolils, U). Wor- 
cester, electrician. 

Laflamme, Joseph Toussaint, 31, St. 
Hyacinthe, Canada, printer. 

Lamberton, Charles Franklin. 24. 
\\'orcester, tinsmith. 

Lowell. Julius Henry, 2J, Springfield, 
clerk. 



Magee, .\rlhur Charles, 2-,. Montcalm, 
Canada, machinist. 

Martin. Rufus Joseph. 22. Worcester, 
polisher. 

.Mills. Arthur Goodell. 35. \\"orcester, 
carpenter. 

.Moody, William Elvardo, 22. Red- 
wing. Minn., clerk. 

.Morse, William Hoyt. 22, Hopkinton, 
druggist. 

Xewell, Frederick George. 22, Flor- 
ence, electrician. 

Reinbold, Albert Joseph. 2<;. lio.ston. 
chemist. 

Rice. William Walter, 25, East Bos- 
ton, conductor. 

Schofield, Walter Edmund. 21. Wor- 
cester, woodworker. 

Severy. William :\Iansfield, 31. Bran- 
don. X'ermont. tobacconist. 

Sherman, William Edward, 21, Pas- 
coag, R. 1., mechanic. 

Smith. Janu-s Whittemore, 18, Lei- 
cester, student. 

Squires, Arthur Thomas, 24, Worces- 
ter, conductor. 

Standish. Louis Odell, 25, Athol, 
motorman. 

Standish. William George, 2y. Athol. 
mechanic. 

Thomas, Ouincy Frederick, 21, Brat- 
tleboro, \'ermont, mechanic. 

Torkelson. Reinhard .\ugustus, 21. 
Christiania, Xorway, boatbuilder. 

Turner, \\'illiam Thomas, ^^j. Kidder- 
minster, England, wea\er. 

\\allace. Samuel Alfri.d. 22. Worces- 
ter, inspector. 

\\'eixler, Carl Wallace, 26, Worcester, 
jeweler. 

Wheeler, Bert- Elmer, 19, Magog, 
Canada, machinist. 

White, Peter Xelson, 22. Millbury, 
carpet-laver. 

Wills. -Albert :\Iorrow, 22. Fall River, 
machinist. 

Young, William Stewart, 24. Worces- 
ter, finisher. 



L. AL Fay. — The following data were received too late for insertion in the 
proper place: Private Fay's full Christian name was Lewis Montague, those of 
his parents were William Wirt and Mattie A. (Wilson) Fay. The father was a 
veteran of K Company, 13th Mass. Infantry, and of F Company, 4th Heavy .Artil- 
lery. The body is buried in Alonrovia, Ca!. 



82 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




COMMISSIONED OFI'ICEKS COMPANY C. 



LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



83 



Worcester in the Spanish War. 

LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C, zD REGIMENT, M.V.M. 




SIDE from the First and 
SL'C(Tn(l Farishes, or the Ohl 
S(nith and the First Unita- 
rian Societies, the ^^^orces- 
tcr Light Infantr}' is the 
iildest active organization in 
the city. There are two or 
three nominal bodies which 
nccasionally awake suffi- 
ciently to partake of a din- 
ner and then lapse into 
their accustomed comatose condition, 
but the Light Infantry has been up 
and doing for very nearly a century. 
It was away back in 1803 that Gov- 
ernor Caleb Strong appended his name 
to a charter warranting the organiz- 
ing ancl maintaining of a military" com- 
pany in the then remote and not over- 
populous township of Worcester. The 
application was written by the late 
Governor Levi Lincoln while confined 
to his bed by a broken leg. As the 
first public parade of the Companv 
was on the 6th day of the ensuing 
June, it does not reciuire any great 
stretch of fancy to tell just when the 
Light Infantry of to-day purposes to 
celebrate the end of its' first hundred 
years. 

Organized for the purpose of hel])ing 
defend and advance American inter"- 
ests, the Company has ever been upon 
the alert to volunteer whenever tliere 
has been an opportunity to act. Ac- 
cordingly when, in 1807, there were 
mutterings of complaint against Brit- 
ish arrogance and oppression, forerun- 
ners of the War of 1812, there was sent 
to the Governor an expression of the. 
Light Infantry's readiness to help in 
any way possible to repel foreign ag- 
gression. This action must have been 



received by His Excellency James Sul- 
livan with a deal of pleasure, for he had 
military promptings himself. A brother 
of the famous General John Sullivan 
of New Hampshire, only lameness re- 
sulting from a boyish accident pre- 
vented the subsequent Governor of 
Alassachusetts acquiring equal fame 
with the man whose name is linked 
with some of the most thrilling inci- 
dents of the Revolution. As it was. 
though excluded from active participa- 
tion in deeds of war, James Sullivan, in 
1775, had executed an important mili- 
tary mission to Ticonderoga, and 
throughout that sanguinary period his 
was ever a potent voice in matters mili- 
tar}'. Hence the satisfaction he must 
have had over the thought that the 
Heart of the Commonwealth was beat- 
ing loyally. 

This ])remonition of war ripened into 
actuality only five years later, when 
the true war of independence began, 
and l^efore it was over, our Light In- 
fantry, under the command of Captain 
John W. Lincoln, subsequently sheriff 
of the county and one of the best 
equipped officers the city ever knew, 
marched to Boston to help repel at- 
tack. The Company went down, or 
started, September nth, and was on 
duty there till October 31st, when it 
returned from, it is true, a bloodless 
campaign, but this was not the fault of 
the Light Infantry. It seems not a 
little interesting that the late Albert 
Curtis, who died in 1898, had a distinct 
recollection of the marching away of 
the brave and loyal men of that re- 
mote day. 

Again during the Mexican War the 
Worcester boys of this crack Company 



84 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




LIGHT INF.WTRV, Cr)MPANV C. 



86 



were ready, and so expressed tlieni- 
selves.but their proffer of services \vas 
not accepted, because the quota of the 
State was already filled, and Governor 
George N. Briggs did not think well 
enough of the war to exceed the de- 
mands to any great extent. Those were 
days when, in 1846. "Hosea Biglow" 
was expressing himself in most une- 
quivocal terms, and Governor "B." was 
known to be in perfect accord with the 
sentiments of James Russell Lowell. 
But this did not prevent members of 
the Company going into the service, 
and Captain George Lincoln fell at 
Buena Vista while serving on the staff 
of "Old Rough and Ready," or General 
Zachary Taylor, while endeavoring to 
rally and advance a western regiment 
which was retreating in disorder. 

The ^^'ar of the Rebellion is yet so 
near the affairs of to-day that it is 
hardly necessary to more than allude 
to the promptness with which the 
"boys" sprang to arms in i8(ii.an<lthe 
city will ever cherish with increasing 
pride the fact that her Light Infantry 
was among the companies of the Sixth 
Regiment which, on April 19th, fought 
its way through the streets of Balti- 
more and was among the immortals 
who stacked arms in the nation's Sen- 
ate chamber on the evening of that 
fatal day, the very first armed force to 
interpose itself between the ciiuntr}- 
and its assailants. Many of those men 
are living to-day, and if not active 
members of the organization they 
love, their spirit is present and per- 
meates every fibre of their successors. 

The rank and file of the Light Infan- 
try of 1898 were near of kin to the men 
who had done their duty in years 
agone, hence there need be no wonder 
that the active members were alert to 
all the indications of approachingstorm. 
It was not so mi;ch a feeling of apjjre- 
hension as it was one of extreme anxi- 
ety lest the trouble should Iilow over 
and there should be no chance to show 
their metal. As the news from the 
Pearl of the Antilles grew more and 
more intense, and it became daily more 
clear that the nation would have to 
undertake not alone the avenging of 
the Maine, but the complete expulsion 



of .Spain from this westt-rn world, the 
citizen soldier longed for tiie oppor- 
tunity to do his part. 

As early as April 11 Colonel Clark of 
the Second Regiment sent out a precau- 
tionary order with reference to extra 
preparation in the matter of culinary 
outfit. As a veteran of the Ci\'il War 
the Colonel remembered General Sher- 
man's remark that an army moves on 
its Ijelly. and it was a wise precaution 
of his that the men whom he was to lead 
should not grow hungry. The average 
stomach can endure a great deal of va- 
riety and man}- privations, but it must 
have something, else the stoutest heart 
will fail. April 22 came another onler 
froni the same source, directing ever\- 
care that all data and memoranda 
should be carefuUv preserved, another 
direction inspired bv recollection of the 
war, i86i-'65. Three days later, or April 
25th, came the order to hold the Com- 
pany ready to respond within twenty- 
four hours' notice. Matters were grow- 
ing warm, and each member was ar- 
ranging his affairs so that he could go. 

The next demonstration came in the 
shape of a telephonic connnunication 
from regimental headquarters in 
Springfield to Captain Rider, of which 
the following is a verbatim transcript: 

"April 30, 1898. 
"( )riler receivedl^y telephone, 12. 20 p.m. 

"I am to make arrangements with the 
R. R. Co. to have my Company in Fra- 
mingham, Tuesday, May 3, at 12 m. 
Transportation order will be sent to 
me by the Quartermaster General. 

"Arrange to feed my command for 
one week, same as at camp. Take all 
State property in my possession or 
freight it d(jwn there. Leave at home 
all men who are not going to volunteer. 
Take enough other men to make a 
total enlistment of 79 men. We are 
going down there as a volunteer organ- 
ization, but not as the Second Regi- 
ment. Copied by George H. Hill, 
sergeant." 

The same day came a telegram from 
Springfield, worded thus : 

"Xew orders from Adjutant General. 
(L'. S.) Total for company, "JJ, includ- 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




LIGHT INFANTRY CI IM M I SSK IXKI) (IFFICERS, 1895. 



Tm 



Take only this nuiiilx 
Paul l\. Hawkins. 
^t Lieut, anil .Vdjiilant." 



As this telegram came at uj. i" p.m. 
it superseded the mnm telejjhone cum- 
munication. Then, to still further 
modify the matter of numbers, a letter 
came later stating that the maximum 
was seventy-five men in all. 

So much for the orders under which 



niitificati(.ns were sent to the memliers 
iif the Comnanv. Thev found the men 
"r li(iys, since many of the members 
liad n.it passed their majority, in shops, 
behind counters, and some even in 
scIkkjI. Says one of the latter class, "I 
was to take the part of "Jenkins" in a 
|)lay to be g'iven tlie evening of April 29 
in the Classical High School, and on 
theafternoonofthat day was taking my 
lessons in a dress rehearsal, when my 



LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY 



87 



father a|)|}i'arc(l to tell nu' that 1 was 
wanted at the Armory in the evening at 
eight o'clock. What could I do? At 
last one of the teachers volunteered to 
see the Captain and to try to beg off 
for nie till after the play. His plea was 
effectual, and I took my part till near 
the end of the second act, when a 
friend stepped into my place and I 
went down to the Armory, where I 
found everything at fever heat. Those 
who were fierce for the war were mak- 
ing speeches, while others were elo- 
quently silent. That first evening thirty 
two of the members expressed them- 
selves as ready to go." Thence on- 
ward there was an almost continuous 
meeting in the company rooms right 
up to the day of departure, which was 
the 3d of May, Tuesday. The compa- 
nies were to report in Framingham 
before noon and they were to proceed 
by special train, which was to start 
from Springfield. Unhappily the day 
itself proved to be anything liut the 
beautiful one we might e.xpect early in 
the vernal month, but the people were 
not to be cheated of their show, what- 
ever the weather. They were out by 
the thousand, of both sexes and of all 
ages. Schools were closed, that younger 
lads and lassies might see their brothers 
march away, and right royally were they 
rewarded. All the semi-military bodies 
in the city were in line, the right of the 
same being takenbytheGrand Army of 
the Republic, many of wdiom had sons 
among the departing volunteers. The 
Mayor of the city gave a parting word 
as the companies were drawn up in a 
hollow square in the drill-shed, and a 
fervent prayer was oft'ered by the Rev. 
Almon Gunnison of the First Universal- 
ist Church. Then the march began, ex- 
tending down Main Street as far as the 
Post Office and around the same back 
by the City Hall, where the Mayor and 
the city government reviewed the em- 
bryonic soldiers. Thence along Front 
Street the line moved to the Union 
Station, everywhere through thou- 
sands of people, to whom the scene was 
of vastly more interest than it was to 
the men themselves. Indeed, one par- 
ticipant modestly remarks in his diary, 
"Somehow I didn't see as we were 



doing anything to make such a stir, 
l)ut the older ones knew nuich better 
than we did what we were to soon pass 
through." The boy was right ; many in 
that vast array of humanity had seen 
men go to war before, and in so manv 
cases had awaited in vain the home- 
coming of those who had so bravely 
marched away : the gray and wrinkled 
veterans of the G. A. R. knew just 
what it all mieant, for they had been 
through it all. None the less, all made 
the air ring with their applause, all 
being determined that their boys 
should have the very best send-oft' 
that Worcester could give. 

Soon tlie \'ast station received the 
"boys in blue," where the train from 
Springfield absorbed them, also Com- 
panies A and H and the two companies 
which had come down from the north, 
and then amid shouts and cheers, ac- 
com])anied in many cases by tears, the 
cars niDved slowly out with their pre- 
cious burdens of men devoted to what 
they deemed duty and the right. Those 
who left the city as members of Com- 
panv C on that rainy Tuesday were 
the following:: 



Captain, P. L. Rider. 
First Lieutenant, F. L. .Mien. 
Second Lieutenant, F. M. Cl.irk. Jr. 
First Sergeant, \. C. King. 
Sergeant, H. W. Warren. 
Sergeant, W. E. C. Fairbanl<s. 
Sergeant, George H. Hill. 
Corporal, .\. S. Longley. 
Corporal, George W. Stebbins, 
Musician, F. J. Zaeder, 



John H. .\llen, 
E. J\L Barnard, 
Wni. E. Barton, 
C. E. Butler, 
J. J. Coburn, 
C. H. Colburn, 
W. G. Dennis, 
R. H. Dowse, 
C. T. Eldridge, 
G. S. Farrow, 
C. T. Fletcher, 
H. J. Greene, 
H. H. Ham, 
H. L. Hastings, 
J. \V. Hoi brook, 
Roland Johnson, 
Geo. T. Jones, 



H. H. .\dams, 
G. H. Bejune, 



PRIVATES. 

R. W. Kincaid, 
C. H. Knibbs. 
P. W. Lincoln, 
S. L Mayo, 
W. A. Merrifield, 
O. J. Newton, 
R. C. Randall, 
.•\. F. Rcbboli. 
G. E. Rix, 
J. C. Stevenson, 
Robert Taft. 
C. .\. Vaughan, Jr. 
F. W. Washburn, 
H. B. Went worth. 
J. L. Wilmot, 
A. T. Wintersgill, 
Emit Zaeder. 

RECRUITS. 

J. F. Bradley, 
E. A. Briggs. 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



C. A. Browne, 
I. A. Brigham, 
W. H. Butler. 
F. E. Crosman. 
F. P. Dean. 
W. W. Eddy, 
A. C. Gage, 
\V. L. Gage. 
O. J. W. Gleason, 
J. C. King, 

E. J. Martin, 

F. B. Maynard, 
E. G. Oliver, 



F. S. Owen, 

A. J. Pembleton, 
F. W. Pettet. 

R. H. Pitts. 
J. E. Pope, 

B. A. Prince, 
W. D. Rheutan. 
W. D. Roberts. 

E. A. Stearns. 
A. D. Stewart. 

F. B. Taft. 
F. W. Ward, 

E. D. Wooldridge. 



good-ljvs were said. ami thenthc engitie 
tried to start its loiitj- train cif twelve 



Our lives are made up largely of 
"coming and going," and of the two 
the latter is the one dreaded. The 
friends of the Infantry were out in 
force. For them rain had no deterrent 
power, and thoiigli they knew the de- 
jiarture was only for the camp in Fra- 
mingham, yet it was a beginning of the 
separation which was sure to come a 
few da\-s later, and many an eye grew 
dim at the thought of seeing no more 
the form now awaiting the muster-in. 
I'illed with the exhilaration incident t(5 
the march and the enthusiasm, along 
the entire line, possibly the bciys them- 
selves felt least of all the pangs of part- 
ing, vet there were hearts in the ranks 
which were beating rapidly as the 
hands of wife and chihlren were 
grasped, for there were those who had 
not heeded Captain Rider's injunction 
that only those should volunteer upon 
whom no one was dependent. The 
feeling of patriotism is a strange one 
quite impossible to analyze. If a 
father or grandfather has been a sol- 
dier, the chances are that his son or 
grandson will inipro\e the first oppor- 
tunity to take a hand in a jjossible fight. 
Family pride counts for quite as much 
as love of country, yet in this ])articular 
case, the destruction >if the Maine in 
Havana Harlior ha<l rcjiised the wIkjIc 
people to a ]>itc-h bordering on frenzy. 
One of Comp;my ("s sergeants marched 
away with a knapsack packed the very 
day that dastardly act was announced. 

Yerv likeh- the majority of those in- 
terested in the ile])arttire cotild nothave 
told what the bands played ; they knew 
that music was in the air, luit as to 
ttities the\' made little note. However, 
the strains <if the "Star-spangled Hau- 
lier" and of ".\uld Lang Syne"rang out 
on the tnist-ladenattnosphere while final 



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lieaxily-burdened cars. The resistance 
was too great, and not till the firetnan 
had sanded the track could the engine, 



LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



at 9.30 a.m.. |)ull its Sprinofiolil and 
\\'orcesti;r men from the station. Once 
away from the leave-takings, the boys 
speedily settled down to the diversions 
sure to be suggested to every soldier in 
moments of leisure, and more than one 
pack of cards served to while away the 
time taken to run down to South Fra- 
mingham. Less than an hour was em- 
ployed in the triji, and then the compa- 
nies debarked where so many of them 
had been in former years at their an- 
nual encampment. Possibly the towns- 
people did not know of the coming of 
this contingent ; at any rate there was 
no crowd to greet the men, and in the 
midst of rain, still in evidence, the line 
was formed for Camp Dewey, at which 
in due time the men appeared and pro- 
ceeded to make themselves as com- 
fortable as they could. Says one of the 
soldiers, "Save for the absence of the 
blue chests in which the refreshments 
were usually carried, it seemed as if 
we were simply entering on our reg- 
ular tour of dut}-." After the assign- 
ment of tents came the physical exam- 
inations, to see who were probably 
able to endure the privations sure to 
follow in active service. Concerning 
these same examinations, now that they 
and the war are long past, it ma}' be 
]iroper to remark that very few of the 
men held them in respect. Most ]ieo- 
ple supposed that when a regiment of 
militia was ordered out for that on ac- 
count of which they drilled, they would 
go as an organization, just as so many 
did in 1861, Init in this case they were 
very much in error. Evidently the 
government feared too many applica- 
tions for pensions, when the war was 
over, on account of health lost in the 
same, hence the attempt to allow only 
strong, vigorous men to enter tlie ser- 
vice. The intention was well enough, 
but in its practical application there 
were so many exceptions and so many 
evasions that when the regiment finally 
went to Florida, it may be questioned 
whether it really was as well condi- 
tioned, in spite of all care and strict- 
ness, as it would have been if the original 
well-drilled men had been taken with- 
out any interview with the surgeons. 
Here are some of the incidents. Cer- 



tain standards of height, weight ;ind 
chest measurements were set up, and 
compliance with the same was nomi- 
nally exacted. Here comes a man who 
\-ery much wishes to go. Tie knows 
(|uite well that his weight is far under 
tliat which his stature requires, Ijut he 
had been worked down in the early 
spring and hence is under the normal 
number of pounds, but he notes that the 
surgeon is not actually weighing, and so 
he takes his chances on stating that his 
weight is fully'fifteen pounds more than 
it really is. Another is e<|ually anxious 
not to go, so he understates his avoir- 
dupois, and without a further word 
both get what they want. .\s to eye- 
sight, there is a card on which are let- 
ters which must be named at a proper 
distance. Here comes a young man 
who is particularly desirous of getting 
in. He has worn for a long time a pair 
of pinch-nose glasses, l)ut his comrades, 
bv diligent rubbing, have effaced the 
tell-tale marks, and having fortified him- 
self beforehand with a full knowledge of 
the relative location of every character 
upon the card, he goes through with 
flving colors. The aljsurdity of the eye- 
test is apparent when one reflects that 
had the same been applied stringently 
in all cases there had been no Roose- 
velt at San Juan Hill, and hence no 
I^resident of that name in the White 
House. Again, a young man retires on 
account of a tobacco heart, but an offi- 
cer is particularly desirous to have him 
go, so a re-examination discloses the 
fact ( ?) that the first report was too ex- 
acting, and that the man should go in. 
Here is an excellent soldier whom the 
surgeon turns down on account of de- 
fective teeth, whereupon a young den- 
tist suggests that it would be a simple 
operation to gold-crown the molars, 
and the man would be all right. Hap])y 
thought ! The man is accepted, but 
somehow the crowning is not done, at 
least before the Cuban campaign. After 
the examinations were over, and the 
rejected were counted up. among them 
were found in Company C the Captain, 
the Secon<l Lieutenant, and a large 
number of enlisted men. Some of 
these rejected ones took their fate most 
grievouslv, and it was far from un- 



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Li(:;iir i.\i"axtry EXi.iSTia) .men. 



manly for one thus cast down tn qive 
way to tears. It would not be out of the 
way to state that probably not a man 
was thrown out in these tests who would 
not ha\e been taken at a later date had 
the war continued as it did in the days 
of the Reljellion. In times of stress, per- 
fection of stature, limbs and \'iscera 
are not so much considered as that 
more important cjuery,"Can he keep up 
and fire a gun ?'" There was no trouble 
in finding men to take the places of 
those who were dropped, and raw re- 
cruits soon made the number gmid. 

Among these recruits, wlm in cani]) 
parlance were called "rci ikies." there 
were characters whn were mhu'ccs nf 
nnich anuisement In their fellnws. ( )ne 
was a large ))i>y, just from the farm : in- 
deed he had ridden into the city nn a 
car-load of potatoes. The war bulletins 
attracted him, and he thought a trial of 
soldiering would please him. His 
physique was (juite correct, and the 



boys dubbed him'Tat, "though his par- 
ents had named him Charles. One of 
his comrades, wishing to jolly him, one 
day said, "Pat, does your mother know 
you are out ?" Pat replied instantly, 
"^'es, and she gave me a cent to buy 
a jackass. .Vre you f<ir sale?" There 
was a ( ireek who had been a canvas- 
man with the Buifalo Bill show, was re- 
puted able to speak fi\'e languages, and 
claimed to have killed a man. .Another 
man rode into town on his bicycle, and 
hearing about the wants of theCompany 
blew into headquarters, saying in the 
strongest kind of a Yankee drawd, "I 
understand you want recruits to fight 
witli .Spain, and I thought as how may- 
1)e 1 might go." -\n examination re- 
\ealed under his guise, which might 
have passed for that of Uncle Sam him- 
self. a frame of iron, with huge muscles 
and tendons like whipcord; there was 
no question about his being taken. He 
proved one of the most enduring men 



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•Jl 



in the rfgimcnt, and. when the war was 
over, he came lionie only to surrender 
to a widow, and is to-day as good a 
benedict as he was a soldier in iSyS. 

As Captain Rider was obliged to re- 
tire. First Lieutenant Frank L. Allen 
was promoted to his position, and First 
Sergeant Arthur C. King became First 
Lieutenant. Second Sergeant Herbert 
H. ^^'arren was the choice of his com- 
rades for the Second Lieutenancy in 
place of Lieutenant Clark, and George 
H. Hill was advanced to the place of 
First or Orderly Sergeant. It was 
during this period of camp life that 
Sergeant Hill essayed the matrimonial 
act. and having a two weeks' leave of 
absence, he came back to Worcester 
and united his fortunes with those of 
Miss Edna Jane Tanner, thus escaping 
the infelicities of camp life. i. e.. in 
Framingham. There was little drill ex- 
cept of recruits, in this way affording all 
the more time for visiting with friends, 
who were frecjuently in evidence. 

Though it was in the month of May 
the weather was exceedingly cold, and 
the great fires which each night illu- 
mined the'camp wereenjoyable.not only 
for the sociability they excited, but for 
the comfort they afforded otherwise 
shivering bodies, ^^'hen the regular 
army-blankets came they were more 
than welcome. Soon the caterer, who 
had accompanied the boys to camp. 
Antony Rebboli, himself a member of 
the Company, was bereft of his job. for 
it was deemed best to initiate the sol- 
diers early into what they would have 
to endure later, and regular rations 
were issued to be prepared by a company 
cook. ]\Iuch fault was found with some 
of the items in the bill of fare. but a few 
weeks later, w'hen the hunger of Cuba 
was on them, these same complainers 
were longing for some of the anthema- 
tized viands of the Framingham camp. 

Company C did not linger in camp 
long enough to have its features become 
so very dull, for the stay was only a 
trifle above a w-eek. So rapidly did mat- 
ters move that the new officers hardly 
had time to secure their side-arms. Bos- 
ton could not supply their needs, so 
great had been the demand, and at least 
one vouns: lieutenant marched aw-av 



wearing a sword which a trirnd had 
kindly loaned him. C)n the first and 
only Sunday in camp, the officers were 
personally notified by Adjutant-general 
Dalton that the regiment would ])roba- 
bly move to the South inside of twenty- 
four hours. This was May 8th. and 
these ofificers were to learn that in mili- 
tary orders there is many a sli]5, etc., 
for it was not till the I2th that the de- 
parture really came. The intervening 
time was well spent in issuing apparel 
and equipments to the men. All had 
expected to leave the State via Worces- 
ter, and great interest was felt, both in 
Worcester and in camp, over this last 
glimpse of familiar faces, but it did not 
turn out as expected, as is usually the 
case in war times, for when the train 
was boarded it was to seek Dixie 
through Newport, R. I., and on I^ong 
Island Sound. 

On the evening of the nth. orders 
were given to break camp in the morn- 
ing, and reveille was sounded at four 
a.m. on the 12th, and at six o'clock not 
a tent was standing. The men w-cre 
ready, but those in authority were not. 
Again some of the ine\-itable lessons of 
war were to be learned, viz.. that great 
bodies move slowdy, that orders to be 
ready to move at the word may mean 
a long, long halt, while to, pitch camp, 
in marching days, means to break it be- 
fore one's first nap is ended. One of 
the final acts was the forming of the 
regiment in a hollow square, and then 
Governor Roger Wolcott. in most im- 
pressive manner, delivered to each ofii- 
cer his commission. Before this, on 
the loth, each company had been mus- 
tered into the service of the LTnited 
States and the Second Massachusetts 
Infantry had become the Second Mas- 
sachusetts Infantry, L'. S. V. It would 
not be the least strange if each member 
of the regiment felt just a little larger 
as he marched from camp to the rail- 
road station, for now he was a duly- 
enlisted soldier of the nation, not a 
mere State militiaman. In due lime 
the train was boarded, and the last the 
men saw of their popular Governor 
was his tall form and extended arms 
waving to them a fervent farewell. 

It was about four o'clock in the after- 



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noiin \vh'.-ii in three sectiim^ the train 
nio\eil M luthward.receiviiit;- (Hi its way 
the hearty .L;reetings of all who recup- 
nizetl the liurden it bore. Xewpnrt is 
reached at ten or thereabotits. and the 
oreat steamer Plymouth, of the Fall 
River line, is in waiting, and upon it 
the boys find places to rest their wearied 
bodies. They camp readily wherever 
there is space, while the officers ha\'e 
state-rdiiins. .Vfterall.it nia_\- be doubted 
if. they slept any better than the privates 
did on the floor. The traversing of the 
Sound is little heeded by our Massachu- 
setts bovs, since very few of them awake 
iDcfore the steamer is in East River, rap- 
idly bearing down (in the greatest city 
in the western world. .\t nine a.m. the 
Plymouth ])uts into her North Ri\er 
pier. 'and is saluted by the loud whistling 
of all the craft in that crowded harbor. 
Soon after touching, the Harbor Quar- 
termaster came onljoardand announced 
the ne.xt step in the programme, which 
])r()\-e(l to betheleavingof the Plymouth 
for the Saratoga, which the men thought 
would be their means of reaching the 
South. They were not in lo^•e with the 
dingy, ill-smelling hold of the vessel, 
and they w-ere not displeased when on 
the next afternoon the steamer ran o\-er 
to Jersev City and landed the men to 
make their trip by rail rather than l>y 
water. The fact that the Saratoga was 
the last American craft to leave Ha\'ana 
after the declaration of war did not 
make her any more popular with the 
soldiers wdio had to remain aboard for 
nearly two days. While the Second was 
on the transport, the Seventy-first New 
York came alongside of their vessel, 
and our m.en were much disgusted by 
the incess.int cry of these fellows, who 
W'ere ever shouting, "Sevent\-one. Sev- 
enty-one, the first to come, gallant 
Seventy-one," a fact that the Pay State 
boys did not forget in later days, when 
in Cuba the New Yorkers did not 
maintain the reputation that they had 
gi\en themseh'es, hence some witty 
lads shouted as loiul as they could _\-ell, 
"Seventy-one. Seventy-one. the first to 
come, and the first to run." 

The railroad accommodations ac- 
corded the Second Regiment were ex- 
cellent, since the train conveying the 



men southward was made up of three 
sections, each section of fourteen cars 
lia\-ing on board a liattalion. and the 
Worcester bovs. with F of Gardner, 
were in the third division under the 
command of jNIajor Fairbanks. It was 
after nine p.m. that the start was made, 
and with each man in possession of a 
wdiole seat, the officers having a Pull- 
man, the trip w^as made down through 
New Jersev, Pennsyhania, iMaryland, 
and the District of Columbia towards 
their southern destination. Rations, 
not too large, were issued on the train, 
and it is remarkable what appetites vig- 
orous yoimg men have when the mind 
is free from care and they are embark- 
ing on a new and interesting venture. 
Curled u|) or otherwise disposed, the 
soldier lads made the most of their 
sleeping facilities, and during the 
night had little knowledge of the new 
scenes through which their swiftly- 
moving train was bearing them. Had 
their tri]) been in the daytime every 
man would have relished a sight of 
]erse\'s garden farming: Philadelphia, 
with its wealth of memories and asso- 
ciations, would ha\e e.xcited his wonder 
and ailmiralion ; while in Baltimore he 
might have fancied himself back in 
the trying days of 1861, when it was 
a matter of world-wide moment that 
Massachusetts soldiers should pass 
along the streets of the ^Monumental 
City'. 

Washington is reached at an earl\- 
hour Snnclay. the 13th, and to nearly 
ever^- man in the company this visit is 
his first, b'rom his boyhood he had 
heard of the wonders of the nation's 
capital, and the vast structure known 
as the Capitcd is indelibly stamped 
ujion his memory, but now he has an 
opportunity to see for himself. Had 
there l)een a call for volunteers to make 
an excursion through the principal 
streets and avenues of the famous 
citv, there would have been very few 
wlio would not rush into line for the 
trip, e\'er\- foot c:)f which would have 
been fraught with pleasurable sur- 
prise at the extent and magnitude of 
the public buildings. As it was, there 
was no chance for going far from the 
train. The excursion was not a Ray- 



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mond ])alacc car trip: on the cmitrary 
the l)o\s wort; glad to hod an opportu- 
nity to wash their hands and faces, 
though the means afforded consisted 
only of long troughs, perhaps arranged 
for the watering of cattle, but they 
were very useful and pleasurable to 
the blue-clad men, who had hastened to 
avail themselves of what they offered. 
Something to eat was the next thing 
to arouse the interest of the travelers, 
and regular rations were of no account 
when compared with the baker's prod- 
ucts which nearby stands and passing 
carts provided. These, in conjunction 
with fresh milk, served to fill a long- 
felt want, and men from the far-famed 
pie l)elt of Xew England were not slow 
to fill up with what their famous phil- 
osopher, Emerson, had declared the 
true indicator of the intellectuality of a 
people. If the sage's dictum were to 
be taken literally, the Third Battalion 
was up to the hig-hest standard in intel- 
lect, for every man clearly had a mi.nith 
for pies. The change from hardtack 
and "prime" roast beef was one that all 
partakers appreciated. The stop, how- 
ever, at the longest, was very brief, yet 
in that time some of the boys found 
opportunity to take a short walk, and 
three Company C lads were not slow in 
meeting some of the pretty girls for 
whom the city has long been noted. 
The trio was not so Green as some 
might have thought, and that one of 
the triplet whose name suggests \\'in- 
some. always mindful of the obligation 
of jMars to Venus, and as a souvenir of 
the sly glance she had taken at him, 
gave her one of his blouse buttons, in 
securing which he tore said garment. 
To the jibes of his comrades at this 
rent in his uniform, the gallant youth 
responded that such a "darned pretty 
girl was worth more than the blouse 
with all its buttons." 

"Believe me if all those endearing young 
charms 
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day." 

In these days of college cheering and 
school-boy yells it was not strange that 
the ingenious and rhythmic soldier 
should improvise some expressions of 
his vocation and of his blood-thirst}' 
intent. For instance, this collection of 



well-bred Bay State youths occa- 
sionally rent the air with shouts like 
this: 

Three cheers for the Maine! Three cheers 

for the Maine! 
The Second Massachusetts 'II lick h— 1 

out of Spain." 

A declaration (piite at \ari;ince with 
the Sunday school instruction with 
which the most of them had been 
favored from infancy. The transform- 
ing influence of a bit of uniform and 
the elbow touch of kindred spirits are 
wonderful. Perhaps they had heard 
of that good priest over in their own 
fJay State town of Milford who. in a 
farewell talk to the lads as they were 
about departing, said. ".\'o\v, my boys, 
it is yours to go in and do your level 
liest. You are to carry the guns and 
to do the shooting. \\'e at home arc 
to read our Bibles and look after home 
affairs. You do your duty and we will 
do ours;" and if these young men were 
not out on account of Spain and her 
many misdeeds, then what was their 
mission? As for their precise lan- 
guage it is a lamentable fact that men 
wdio served as deacons at home, when 
away and under the influence of excite- 
ment and surroundings, ha\e been 
kntjwn to talk in a way that would 
scandalize the congregation. ( )ld (ien- 
eral Israel Putnam, in his memorable 
apology to his fellow Christians of 
Brookhn, Conn., for profanity at 
Btinker Hill, closed his contrite words 
with the remark that it was enough to 
make an angel swear to see "them" 
cowards run away. 

If our boys lost something of sight- 
seeing in their night approach to 
\\'ashington, there was no such trouble 
in their departtire. However much 
they might have delighted in a day's 
stay in the capital, they were obliged 
to repeat the well-known words, "so 
near and yet so far," and then betake 
themselves to their respective cars and 
move southward. There were eyes in 
Company C which in that ride out of 
the city saw for the first and last time 
the towering Washington monument, 
and looked only once upon the tawny 
waters of the Potomac as the train 
sped across the Long Bridge and 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPAXISH WAR. 



tciucherl the "sacred" soil of \'ir- 
p^-inia; "the first and last time." we 
repeat, for ere they return to their 
loved homes, under the weight of fever 
and heart weariness, thiise eyes will 
close in death. But today there is no 
shadow over these spirited young men ; 
all are equally intent on the scenes 
ma'de memorable in song and story, 
and every stopping place is a signal for 
as many as possible to alight and to 
have a part in the universal chinning 
with the natives, man\- of whom, tin 'Ugh 



long.alwaysconfined to talking. Razor- 
back hogs from remote times have 
been among the noteworthy products of 
the South, hence some of the lads in 
alighting were pleased to hmber up 
their cramped legs by chasing the 
material for future bacon, and it was 
high jinks for all concerned, though 
there is only one catch recorded, and 
that was made by Private F. of Com- 
pany G, who carried his trophy aboard 
the train. On liis arrival in the land of 
flowers he killed and roasted his por- 




<d], 



E. K 



they proclaimed themsehes "J( ihnnies." 
expressed the wish'that they, too, might 
go. There are all sorts of diversions, 
and one imjjressionable youth spends 
some ]iart of his not o\-er-burdened 
time in writing his name and address 
u]ion hardtacks and inxiting corre- 
sp(.)ndence as he throws them from the 
car window. .After his arri\-al in Lake- 
laml he had no less than fi\e responses 
to this inxitalion. The color or sex of 
those who found the bits of hard 1)read 
is not stateil, nor whether the same 
was retained as a souvenir or soon 
found its way into the finder's stomach. 
Xor were the waiting periods which 
in the locoinotixe w<io(l-burning re- 
o'ions of the far South were man\' and 



cine prize for the good of himself and 
his comrades. 

Not the least among the noteworthy 
observations, as this tri]) jirogressed, 
was the change in temperature. Only 
a few days before, ice had formed of 
considerable thickness in their Fra- 
minghani camp, but now they were 
clearly 

"In the land of cotton. 
Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom;" 

gardens were yielding their early 
products, and small fruits were well 
advanced towards ripening. These 
men were beginning to realize the ex- 
tent of this vast land of ours. While 
the eve was thus feasted b\- a con- 



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95 



stantly clianging; landscape, provision 
had been made by the vigilant and 
thoughtful commander of the bat- 
talion, Major Fairbanks, so that liot 
coffee was served twice a dav while 
en route, which delectable fluid, with 
associated solids, placed each stomach 
in a condition akin to satisfaction. 

These young men are not so long out 
of school but that history and geog- 
raphy are constantly brought to mind 
as they speed along through "Old \'ir- 
ginny,"the Old North State and South 
Carolina, and wdTen,on the morning of 
May i8. they arrive in Savannah, their 
former teachers would be eternallv 
discredited if some blue-clad bov did 
not remember that here Pulaski fell and 
Nathaniel Greene long resided. Also, 
if those who carry watches in any wax- 
discover local time, they will be sur- 
prised at finding themselves an hour 
ahead, since they have passed out of 
the range of the meridian of Albany 
and are under that of Cincinnati. 

Just where the train was going was 
of very little moment to the careless 
souls aboard, yet there was a general 
impression that Tampa was the ulti- 
mate destination, but at W'aycross, 
Georgia, the announcement was made 
that the point of debarking would be 
Lakeland, a place singularlv well 
named, lying as it does among a vast 
number of beautiful lakes, a compara- 
tix'cly short distance from the Gulf of 
.Mexico. That these Yankee boys were 
traveling with eyes wide open is evi- 
dent in the comments made by a \\'or- 
cester observer at the sight, near the 
dividing line between Georgia and 
Florida, of a party of fifty-seven 
colored convicts guarded by seventeen 
white men with guns, and to look after 
the guards are five overseers. Says 
the boy himself, "In school I had to 
study up the subject of labor, hence 
this sight naturallv interested me. I 
am told that for loafing the convicts 
are whipped and that they get it often." 
The vicinity of the future camp is 
reached at about 3 o'clock in the morn- 
ing of the 17th, but slumbers are not 
disturbed by the arrival, for it is not 
till well along in the forenoon that the 
line of march is essayed for the camp, 



which is found on the shores of I,ake 
.Morton in what Colonel Clark is 
pleased to name Camp Massachusetts^. 
With the temperature 96 degrees in 
the shade, there is little wonder that 
niany a man is pretty well wearied by 
nightfall over the labors incident to 
the pitching of tents and the clearing 
up of debris. 

It was many a year ago that Lau- 
rence Sterne said that God tempered 
the wind to the shorn lamb, and Mas- 
sachusetts boys soon found that it was 
not impossible to acclimatize them- 
selves, and heat which would have been 
unbearable at home was endured here 
with considerable equaniniitv. ( )ne 
soldier writes of his surprise on the 
morning of his arrival to find a regular 
army man asleep in the sand with his 
hat over his face, apparently uncon- 
scious of the baking quality of'the sun's 
rays, and it was not till a comrade 
sliook him and told liim that it was 
time to get up did he give any signs of 
life. The .same writer testifies that a 
week later he could sleep anvwhere 
and at any time, especially" after 
twenty-four hours of guard-diitv. Ra- 
tions are slow in arriving, and for three 
days no meat is served "except bacon, 
and the effect of this excessively fat 
meat in this hot climate is bad. Hos- 
pital accommodations are poor and 
medicine is far from plentiful. The 
soldier's consolation of grumbling is 
soon in evidence, but it is not all 
gloomy, for there are many who see 
only the funny side of everything and 
they are salvation to their fellows. 

The spirit of caste is abroad in Lake- 
land, and the night before the Second 
came, there had been a shooting aft'ray 
in wdiich a black trooper had signalized 
his equality by using his revolver with 
fatal eft'ect upon a white man, a condi- 
tion not often had in such troubles. 
The result was that excitement ran 
high, and the soldier was under guard 
and in greater safety than he would 
have been had there been less men in 
blue in his immediate vicinity. 

The waters of the neighboring lakes 
were inviting, and the men enjoved 
them as much as they could, consider- 
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gators and that the shores aboiinik'<l in 
moccasins ami rattlesnakes. Rii;lu 
here it is not amiss to tell the story ( if 
how the first two officers of Company 
C tried to shoot the most famous of all 
the reptilian inhabitants of Florida. 
Lake Parker was two miles away and 
arrangements had been made with a 
native for guidance and boat, but on 
reaching his abode he was unable to 
fulfill his contract and so sent his ten- 
vear-old boy. who. as night had fallen, 
carried a lantern. The way led through 
a Ions: stretch of waste land having a 



went along also lest some harm might 
liefall him. As they had taken the pre- 
cauticin of Udt infurming the camp of 
their determination, it was quite un- 
necessary for them to tell any fish 
stories the following day on account 
of their lack of substantial tokens of 
success. 

The stay of the "Second" in Camp 
Massachusetts extended from the 17th 
to the 30th of May, a period of time 
within which the regiment accus- 
t( lined itself to Florida climate and to 
the routine of camp life. That the 




A. L. Ki.v.;. Seconh I.ieut. II. II, Wakre 

IN FI.()KID.\ CAM I'. 



few trees, ami altogether bearing a 
most uncanny liuik. Tci beguile the 
time the lad Inld tales of the abun- 
dance (if rattlers and moccasins in that 
\-erv neighbiirhiMid. and said that on 
reaching the water he was going back 
because he wa>^n't fond of "gators and 
that his mother wanted him at hcinie, 
besides the last time he was out with 
his father fishing, a 'gator had jumped 
into the boat. These recitals ser\-ed Im 
cool the nimrod ])romptings of the 
young officers and the}' began to think 
that jterhaps night was not the Ijest 
time to hunt 'gators, and then, when 
the lad returned to his home the officers 



liovs were imt (lut fur fun was speeil- 
ilv im])resseil U]iiin them, and with 
rapidh' linmzing faces they re- 
s]»imled til the liugle calls, which fol- 
lowed each other with exas])erating 
regularity and freciuency. These young 
men must learn that the real end and 
aim <if a soldier's life is not the battle- 
held, liut drill — continuous, unvarying 
drill. The \\'orcester companies are 
Incated (111 the left, and are adapting 
themselves as raj^idly as possible to 
their situation. The wall tents are 
I) X II. thus accommodating six pri- 
vates and a non-commissioned officer. 
There are twelve tents on the street, 



LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



and the officers arc t|uartere(l in two 
tents which face the street. Trenches 
surround each tent for the better dis- 
posiition of the water which falls* fre- 
quently in Florida, and in great quan- 
tities. That the lads are not particu- 
larly given to complaining can be 
gathered from these words, entered in 
his journal by a Worcester boy : 
"These nights down here are delight- 
ful : no twilight, but with the soft air 
and the stars ;" though even this happy 
youngster can not help breathing a 
sigh over the absence of the gentler 
sex. 

Sleeping on the ground soon devel- 
oped its disagreeable features, and to 
obviate them Spanish moss was 
sought, the same hanging in profusion 
from the trees. Climbing the same, 
material was found for couches soft 
enough for the body of a king, but 
everywhere the principle of compen- 
sation comes. It did not take a great 
deal of time for some of the soldiers to 
learn that their delightful moss was an 
excellent harboring place for lizards, 
snakes and other reptiles and vermin, 
hence luxurious beds speedily lost 
their attractiveness. Yankee ingenuity 
quickly discovered that slender sap- 
lings, trimmed up in part, made fine 
gun-racks and hat-trees, and the tents 
were often thus equipped. Still the quar- 
ters were hampered, and only for the 
fact that at least one from each tent 
was usually on guanl, the boys would 
have found their space somewhat lim- 
ited : as it was, spoon-fashion was the 
rule in sleeping, and "one over, all 
over," was the cry when a change of 
position became a necessity. Some 
preferred the roominess of out-of- 
doors when it did not rain, even 
though guard duty had taken away one 
of the number, and so slept in God's 
big bed-room. 

Perhaps no better idea of camp life 
in Lakeland can be had than that given 
in a letter from a private of C Com- 
pany to a Worcester friend: "All one 
has to do is to get up at 4.30 a.m. ; fall 
in with working suits and arms at 
4.45 for roll-call; breakfast at 5.15. 
when we fall in line and pass in front 
of our smiling German cook and re- 



ceive a delicinus 1?) cup of slcaniing 
cofTee, along with a i)eautiful plate of 
savory bacon and i)otatoes, and all the 
hardtack one can eat. The cofTce is 
issued green, and is either burned past 
all usefulness or is Ijoiled green like so 
many beans, and the hog is cut in .slabs 
about one-fourth inch thick, 6 x 4, and 
while one man gets a piece cooked to a 
turn two others get eillu-r a raw ])iece, 
just warmed through, or a piece so 
charred that it is bitter. On this sub- 
stantial meal we perform police duty, or 
street cleaning, and chambermaid duties 
till 6.45. At 7 we go out on the shores 
of the pond on which the camp is situ- 
ated, and drill in the beautiful sunshine 
(106 strong) for one and a half hours. 
At 10.30 we have school for general in- 
struction out under the trees in the 
shade. One man in twenty can get in 
the shade, which is usually located over 
a nest of red ants. 

"At 12.15 we partake of another 
bounteous feast of fresh beefstew or 
bean soup ; at 2 p.m. school again : 4.40, 
dress parade in the broiling sun and 
ankle-deep sand : 5.40, guard mount ; 
6.05, roll-call ; 6.30, supper, when we 
again gorge ourselves on choice viands 
similar to those of breakfast and din- 
ner. It is dark at 7 o'clock, and 
all of a sudden, too. for there is no twi- 
light. Nine o'clock sees all of us in 
bed." 

Lakeland itself is a comely place for 
one in the South, of perhaps 1500 ])eo- 
ple, about thirty miles from Tampa, and 
is called the healthiest town in Morida, 
being a great winter resort for North- 
ern people, but at this season the lat- 
ter are conspicuous by their absence. 
Like most of the cities and towns of 
the Southland, it has very little notion 
of enteq^irise, and was a long time in 
awaking to the fact that in its inune- 
diate vicinity was a large army of men 
with money to spend. Indeed, some 
of the tradesmen were entirely bought 
out before they awoke to the necessity 
of restocking. So unwilling were some 
to adapt themselves to the changed 
conditions, they even wished the sol- 
diers afar off. that they might 
resume their accustomed tranquillity 
and somnolence. One bov of C, who 



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^I'AMSII WAR. 



liad gone to town for supplies, finding 
himself overloaded, asked a native how 
much he wanted to carry a small bundle 
to the camp. He said, "No, I don't 
want to. Said a merchant, "I shall be 
glad when you fellows leave Lakeland. 
1 hardlv get a chance to sit down unless 
I lock the door." 

He would be a queer soldier who did 
not know the delights of running or 
jumping the guard: so unusually good 
must such a man be it would be quite 
unsafe for him to be exposed in the 
least, for the good die early. Recog- 
nizing the truth of this saying, some of 



for the boys." 'i'hat the "canteen" in 
this regiment was well patronized is 
evident from the fact that it had above 
$800 in the treasury. It would seem 
that the visitors stole back into camp 
considerablv wiser than when they 
went out, but all the better satisfied 
with their own volunteer surround- 
ings. 

Nor was the camp itself devoid of 
fun ; and what the boys themselves 
failed to provide sometimes came from 
unexpected sources, as when a stray 
calf, old enough to be strong and 
active, wandered into the C(im]iany 




JENKI 



Wakren. Clark. Alle.n. King. I 
LKUIT IXF.WTKV Xll.\-C()MMlSSI(lN'I-:i 

f 



)KFH 



the Infantry lads tried the ])leastu 
I'Vench leave and visited the camp nf 
certain cavalrvmeii across the lake. 
The tri]) did the Ixiys g,,.Ml. fur tlu> 
had a chance to see how others lived, 
and thus widen their own experience. 
Here thev saw Sibley tents, and learned 
that the men slept with their heads 
out or towards the rim. while their 
feet congregated around tlie !ent-pole. 
Also, IJKA s.'iw the nuich-discussed 



street. Terrified by the sudden atten- 
tions of the soldiers, with tail erect, 
head down, and with Idatant cries, it 
ruslied through the tent of Sergeant 
Hill an.l landed in H Street in the 
nndst of toiu' men sleeping, and then 
made for the lake, his only wa\- of 
escape. A \oung hound seeing the dis- 
tm-bance also took a hand, so to speak, 
and i)m-sue(l the crazed bovine into the 
water, swinnning after him for fully a 

;ive 



"canteen," and watched ihe Mexican hundred vards. wlu'n his coin-age 

^•■ann' of .Monte in progress, seeing out and he returned to the shore, leav- 

large sums of money won" and lost, the ing the calf near the point of drowumg 

winner "■■enerouslv "setting them up from weariness and fnght. L nwilling 



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99 



that anything: should suffer tlius, the 
boys who had Ijeen laughing- so heart- 
ily now essayed the part of saviours, 
and actually swam out to the rescue of 
the poor beast, helping- him in till he 
could himself touch the bottom, when 
he made off, glad to be rid of his Yan- 
kee acquaintances. 

Here is a Sunday as described by one 
who was there: "Got up as usual at 
4.45 ; took breakfast of bacon, coffee 
and potatoes, which tasted good. I 
brushed my clothes, shined my buttons, 
blacked my shoes, washed my face, and 
at 8.30 marched over to headquar- 
ters for service. Read prayer, sang 
"America.' Account of the Prodigal 
Son read by the chaplain. "Nearer, mv 
God,' sung by the choir and congrega- 
tion; sermon on character, illustrated 
by Gladstone, Depew, etc. Prayer 
read to close. At 11 o'clock went to 
a chapel down street, where our chap- 
lain preached. Twelve of us went with 
him and sang in the choir. Think 
of my melodious voice echoing 
through the aisles of the cathedral ( ?) 
50 X 30 feet. Went home, had hardtack, 
tomato soup, potatoes and coffee : 
loafed in the afternoon. We were 
told that we were to leave for Tam]5a 
Monday, so began to pick up : 4.30 p.m. 
went on guard duty." 

May 30th, Memorial Day at home, 
camp was broken and preparations for 
departure w'ere made. Reveille was 
sounded at 4 a.m., at 8.20 all was in 
readiness for leaving; but that was not 
the way of doing things in the armv. 
which never moves when the men are 
ready, for it was not till 2.30 that the 
train was taken, and a short ride had 
till 4 p.m., not to Tampa, but to Ybor 
City, a sort of suburb of the former 
place and two miles away from it. 
camp being pitched near the I-"ourth 
Regiment of Heavy Artillery, on 
which account it was rumored that the 
Second was to be converted into that 
branch of the service, but all the heavy 
artillery experience our Worcester 
soldiers had was that of looking over 
the great guns and mortars with which 
the regiment was equipped. \Miile 
camp is in a grove of scrub palmettos, 
the most abounding element in sight is 



sand. It is everywhere and is verv 
dee]). To cross the street is to sink 
ankle-deeo in it. and the mules have 
hard times in dragging their wagons. 
The people arc principally Spaniards 
or Cubans, and their jargon sounds 
queer enough in this "land of the 
free." 

One of the most interesting of the 
near-by features is the great spring, 
whence is had the water for camp use. 
For fear of poison at the hands of 
vengeful Spaniards, it is carefully 
guarded. As at Lakeland. reptiles 
and disagreeable insects are much in 
evidence. Poor Little Miss Muffit 
would have had no peace whatever in 
Florida, for the big spider would not 
have waited till she was comfortablv 
seated on a tufifit before sitting dowii 
beside her. It was from Lakeland that 
a C man wrote thus of his discom- 
forts: "So far I have had oniv three 
bites, but they will linger in my mem- 
ory for some time, till the swelling 
goes down any way. The dav after I 
was bitten I was conscious of a slight 
soreness, and on the next I was so lux- 
uriously inclined that I would do noth- 
ing but lie on my back in the shade, on 
a rubber blanket, and let my arms lie 
out flat. They swelled so' that for 
three days I could not shut my hands. 
Georgie is now a wiser if not a better 
boy.'" 

I<"or a little more than a week, or un- 
til June 7th. this is to he the camp of 
the ""Second." ami with the usual 
routine of drill an<l camp duty the time 
quickly passes, every day there being 
stories of when and where the regi- 
ment was to go. There is no great 
amount of variety in the routine, but 
occasionally the difference between 
X(Trth and Scjuth crops out. The 
negro is not looked u]5on as exactly an 
ornament to society, and there is a 
way of self-assertion among the whites 
that Xorthern men were not accus- 
tomed to. Thus on one of the days 
during which Lieutenant King was 
Officer-of-the-guard, his attention was 
directed to an evident entanglement in 
a certain part of his bounds and, on 
investigating, found a number of his 
men rounded up by a woman with a 



I. Of C, 



100 



WORCESTEK IX THE Sl'AXlSl! WAK. 



shotg-un. It appeared thai near l)y the 
camp was a temptiiiij: watermelmi 
patch, a situation entirel\- l)e\i>n<l the 
power of the lioys to overlodk, Init the 
laclv proprietor was on the Inokout also 
and. gun in hand, she ran them ot^' 
the ])remises, corraled iheni in a 
small ])iece of woods and, on the 
officer's arrival, proceeiled to prefer 
her complaint, saving that if the 
authorities could not protect her prop- 
ertv, she "reckoned" she could do it 
herself. The looks and manners of 
the aniazon gave ample evidence of her 
ability, and though a guard was sta- 
tioned near her melons, the men 
themselves thought her own presence 




sufficient protection. They didn"t like 
her melnns. nut even a little bit. 

( )n Sunday, the 3th of June. Compa- 
nies C and D were routed out at 
1.30 a.m. to assist in the jo.-iding of the 
Heavy Artillery's Ing guns up.m the 
cars for transportation to Tampa, the 
same guns which, on the arrival in 
Cuba. Ceneral Shafter found himself 
unable to unload, another comment on 
the unprei)aredness of our nation for 
war with any people. The ra'in during 
some of these days was something to 
astonish Northern eyes. When it 
rained it ]ioured. great, big drops as 
large, the boys said, as walnuts, and 



thnse who did not have raised board 
tlnnrs in their tents just had to wade. 
Then s(ime of the extra careful men 
had made nice little excavations be- 
neath their floors, which, by courtesy, 
thev called cellars, where they kept 
some of their food, but the floods lost 
nil time in transforming them into 
small swimming tanks. 

It was here that the boxes sent by 
good Worcester friends came, and the 
opening thereof was far ahead of any 
"spring opening" annually advertised 
bv enterprising tradesmen. There 
were boxes galore, big boxes and little 
boxes, and he was a neglected boy who 
had not some home token in this 
shape. "It's just like Christmas," re- 
marks one lad with imagination and 
meniorv. Such a medley of contents ! 
Tobacco, canned fruit, pickles, olives, 
condensed milk, sardines, ham, pickled 
eggs, acid phosphate, saltines, cake, 
cookies, boiled eggs, chowchow, rasp- 
bcrrv vinegar, whiskey (for medicinal 
use), tea, cofifee, fish lines, and in one 
case a baseball. While all these items 
were gratefully received by the young 
soldiers, it is quite likely that they 
would have been just as well off if they 
had confined themselves strictly to reg- 
ular rations. 

It was in this camp that a very pretty 
tribute of home appreciation came from 
snme of the vounger Worcester girls 
who called 'theniselves "the Busy 
r.ees." In their spirit of patriotism 
tlu-v had called njion Captain Rider 
an.l asked him if something in the 
wav of a sewing outfit would not 
l)e good for the men in Moriila. To 
his practical miml the proposition 
was adiuirable, and he tohl them to go 
ahead, which thev did. In time there 
was l)rought to his Main Street store 
a box containing seventy-five of these 
useful combinations, upon each one 
being the name of a Light Infantry 
man^ with that of the maker. Called a 
"Housewife." and filled with all the 
essentials for mending and sewing on 
buttons, the gift was just what every 
man needed.' The letter of thanks 
from Captain Allen bears date of May 
31, and was a great pleasure to the 
young people, who heard it read at a 



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101 



meeting held in the hmne of .\[rs. A. C. 
Williams, in addition, many letters of 
individual thanks were written by the 
men to the particular ones who had 
affixed their names to the presents. 

Here, too, the boys were reminded of 
one of their old comrades, "Tdni" 
Rebboli, the confectioner, who liad 
also been their caterer in some of their 
Framingham life, for he sent them a 
liberal gift of his sweetest wares, and 
though the amount for each one was 
not exactly cloying, it served to remind 
them of home, and was vastly more 
toothsome to some than was the 
toljacco which other friends sent. 

June 7th, Captain x'Mlen wrote a let- 
ter of thanks to Halleck Bartlett for the 
medicine chest which the latter, as 
Treasurer of the Worcester Volunteer 
Aid Association, had sent. He says : 
"It was just what we needed; and it 
did us good service, both in our Com- 
pany, where we distr^ibuted its con- 
tents, and in the regimental hospitals." 
All these examjiles of giving serve to 
illustrate the home love which followed 
the men wherever they went. 

Tilie distance from the camp to the 
neighboring town is short, and when 
reached the men have free access to the 
tent of the Y. M. C. A., where ample 
provision was made for letter writing, 
and there was little time when some 
boy was not seen here writing a letter 
to tlie loved ones at home. Nor was 
the camp lacking in nearer attractions, 
for not more than three hundred 
yards away was the farm-house of a 
native, where could be bought a wide 
range of food that ordinary army regi- 
ments did not afford. "It is presided 
over by two very pleasant and attrac- 
tive looking young women, and a mnii- 
ber of the boys can be found there dur- 
ing the day and evening." Tables are 
placed upon the piazza and, with abun- 
dance of stationery, the boys find this a 
fine place for letter writing. Checker- 
boards are also furnished for those 
who like the game, and with the best 
of manners the people do a big busi- 
ness. 

The 6th of June is the ninet}--fifth 
anniversary of the Company, and for 
years the event had been celebrated 



with a deal (if cereninny; indeed, it was 
the great day of the entire year. Ac- 
cordingly, though remote from Wor- 
cester, action was taken towards mak- 
ing the event memorable in Morida, 
and fifty dollars had been snbseribed 
for a spread and good time. l!ut this 
was a case of certain men's proposing 
and those in higher position disposing 
in a counter direction. The hour of 
fun had been set at 7 o'clock p.m., 
when, at 6.30, the officers were sum- 
moned to headquarters to be informed 
that everything must be ready for the 
wagons at 9.30, and all festivities were 
ofif at once, though as the setjuel 
showed, there was ample time for a 
whole night's celebration, since it was 
not till late the next da}- that a move 
was made. "If we only knew" is so 
often the refrain in after reflections. 
As the men had recently been paid, 
there was an abundance of monev on 
hand, and an observance of such an 
anni\-ersary on Florida soil would have 
been a delightful memory. As it was, 
the time came and went just the same, 
though not exactly as had been 
planned. 

Everything was roaily at the assigned 
time, but the means of depart- 
ure did not show u]i till long after- 
wards. All had the pleasure of sleep- 
ing with only the arched sky for a 
covering, awaiting the orders which 
did not come, for it was not till 6,50 
p,m. on the 7th that the train was 
boarded for Tampa, which was reached 
at 10 o'clock. The Company biv- 
ouacked on the depot platform, ex- 
pecting to take the transport the fol- 
iow'ine day. The Orizalja had been 
assigned to the ".Second," but owing 
to some confusion that vessel was 
taken by certain Regulars, and on the 
8th of June Company C found such ac- 
conunodations as it could upon the 
Concho. 

In the light of snbse<|uent events, 
the apprehensions of the national 
government, and of its representa- 
tives tipon land and sea. as to the 
intentions of the Spaniards seem 
almost ludicrous. Never for an in- 
stant, even, showing the aggressive, 
when thev did leave the harbor of San- 



102 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



tiago, it was (inly ti 
they could. TIk'h 
we should, tor ; 
entertained the 
Dons were trying 
of Me.xico with 



run away a; 
to think 
a lunment. 
thouHu that 



l)est 

that 

have 

the 



to enter the Gulf 
the purpose of 



wiping out our contingent there, seems 



nian\' transpcjrts which were evident 
in the waters near. (.)wing to some of 
the vicissitudes sure to happen in war 
times, the Second, or a part of it, ha<l 
to take up with such quarters as it 
could find on the Concho. This same 
vessel would not have been selected 




, C. A. Vaughan, Jr. Cokf. 1>. W. I.ih 

Louis ll. C.lixman. 

«TON .\. I'Rl.VCi:. llL'OLER A. F. W t 

EXLISTF.I) MICN'. CO.MI'.WV C. 



absurd, yet just such fears and alarms 
disturbed the embarkation and hin- 
dered the . departure imt a little. 
However, the Infantry and its fellow 
companies were at the landing and 
an.xious to go aboard some one of the 



as an excursion steamer if found in 
ISoston Harbor, but it was one of those 
chosen to carry representatives of L'ncle 
Sam to their destination. Already 
MU Imard were two regiments of U. S. 
Infantrv, one of them colored, and 



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103 



with the .Mass'iclnisctts adilitiun. s]>acc 
was at a premium. In the numbers of 
these floating caravansaries, the Con- 
cho '-anked as fourteen, but nothing 
could make lier lovely nor pleasant. 
1 he tentage anil ten days' rations, this 
day issued, had to be loaded — lots of 
work for those who did it, and at 
about three in the afternoon, she 
steamed away to her anchorage, with 
the expectation that during the night 
the start for Cuba would be made. 
Colonel Miller of the First Infantrv, 
commanding the brigade, issued an 
order read before the officers of the 
battalion, to the effect that if there 
should be an attack or anv disturbance, 
one officer should at once go to the 
hold and stay with his men till the 
trouble was over. At m'idnight came 
the tramp of hurried feet on the deck, 
above the quarters of Lieutenant King, 
who immediately arose, dressed and 
repaired to the cabin, where he learned 
that Spanish gunboats had been re- 
ported five miles out, and that the men 
had all been ordered below. If these 
poor fellows had only known how 
much the Spaniards dreaded coming 
near the Yankees, they might have con- 
tinued their deck repose. As it was, 
they were pent up in the stifling 
regions below the water's edge, suffer- 
ing from the terrible crowding and 
heat almost to th; point of suffocation. 
Obedient to Colonel Miller's orders. 
Lieutenant King went below and re- 
mained with his almost frenzied men, 
to whose fancies came visions of catas- 
trophe, with no chance whatever to 
help themselves. They did not wish to 
die like rats in the pit. After almost 
two hours of this tribulation, orders 
were received to bring the men on deck, 
where they foiuid that the vessel was 
making her way back to the slip, all on 
account of possible Spaniards. Wor- 
cester boys climbed the rigging and en- 
joyed the siehts afforded by the flash- 
lights which illumined the busy scene. 
For several days there w^as nothing for 
the men to do but divert themselves as 
best thev could. Swimming was a 
favorite sport w-hen near the shore, but 
at the anchorage to which the Concho 



again moved on the nth, the presence 
of sharks made the l)oys sick of the 
water. Much to the relief of all, on the 
1 2th the Knickerbocker drew along- 
side, and the 3d Battalion was 
transferred to her more roomy if not 
more cleanly spaces. She is a smaller 
craft, but as yet is not crowded, though 
on the 13th she moved up to the 
Orizaba and received the ist Battalion 
of the Second, thus having the entire 
regiment excepting the second section, 
which was on the Seneca. The new 
floating quarters is Number 13, and 
Private Fred Dean, from his known 
deftness with the brush, is directed to 
paint this talismanic combination upon 
the smokestack, while the men have 
nothing else to do but cogitate on the 
thirteens which may be made out of 
the vessel and her history. There are 
thirteen letters in the word Knicker- 
bocker: the captain has commanded 
her thirteen years : she is about start- 
ing on her thirteentli trip to Cuba ; the 
1st Battalion was taken aboard on the 
13th: there are thirteen letters in the 
captain's name; there are the same 
number of letters in the name of the 
'State whence the men have come; 
tliirteen steps are necessary to reach 
the bunks Iielow, and these ingenious if 
not idle fellows had many other coin- 
cidences which tended to make the 
probability of the ship's reaching Cuba 
extremely tmlikely. 

At nightfall, the transport drew in to 
the dock and proceeded to take on 
rations and water for the Cuban trip, 
and the next morning started out again ; 
this time it really looking as if the de- 
parture were at hand. Some of the 
boys in the getting away were left, and 
few people know how a soldier feels 
under such circumstances, for there is 
always the imputation of having tried 
to be left, in other words just the 
])ossil)ilit\' of desertion, the crowning 
disgrace in a military career. Thus 
wlien the transport was likely to leave, 
those on board, in their anxiety to get 
their friends there also, climbed into 
the rigging and signaled and shouted 
themselves hoarse, but in spite of all 
of their efforts quite a number were left 



104 



WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



and later were Ijrouglit mit 1)\' a smaller 
craft, the Margaret. Next to reaching 
home, the boys were pleased at getting 
where they belonged. As it was, the 
antics of the lads in their eiiforts to 
"get there" were equal to circus per- 
formances, for after the gang-planks 
had been taken in, some of the vigor- 
ous fellows swung themselves aboard 
bv means of ropes. 

At the last moments when the 
"Knick." was moving out of her slip, 
one of the young men came running 
down the dock with his arms full of 



liath, even though he finally let go 
everything to get a two-handed grasp 
of the rope, lie had to wa'it and to 
come out with the other delinquents. 
As the regulations were not too strictly 
enforced, no harm came to any one, 
except the inevitable anxiety and some 
rallving by their comrades. These 
Yankee boys were not starting away 
hungry. They had money, the most of 
them, and the shore affords food even 
if the rations of "prime roast beef" 
were not all the most fastidious could 
wish for. Then there were Ijoxes and 




CAMP STREET SCENE IN LAKELAND. 



bundles, no one of which he was 
willing to drop even for the possibility 
of reaching the deck. He had canned 
goods in one hand and a bag of lemons 
in the other. "Throw me a rope" is his 
crv as he ncars the vessel. < )ne is 
thrown and he grabs at it, his foot slips 
upnn something and down he goes, 
bimdles and all, not one of which Will 
he relinquish. Anguish and anxiety 
are pictured, equally, on his face as he 
holds onto the rope with one hand, the 
other being devoted to budgets, and 
he shouts to his comrades to draw him 
on board. They, however, were more 
discreet, and declined to help him to a 



packages from home, which the re- 
cipients generously divided with their 
comrades. Sleeping below decks was 
not exactly comfortable, and some of 
the youngsters made up their minds 
that ' if the horrors of the ^Middle 
Passage, in the days of the African 
slave "trade, were any worse than a 
bunk in the lower regions <if < )ld 
Knick., they were glad that they were 
not passengers for America in those 
same davs of old. 

On the 14th, at ii.,^o. the Knicker- 
bocker is in her proper place in the 
line: at .; p.m. the anchor is hoisted for 
good and the movement for Cuba 



LIGHT IXI'AXTRV. COMl•A^■^■ 



ion 



liL'sijins. It is an auspiciniis event in 
American history, but to these men. 
replete with animal spirits, there is 
little thoug;ht of the significance of this 
vast array of floating strength, on its 
way to wipe out the crowning anachro- 
nism of the century, viz., the survival 
of mediaeval Spanish rule in this en- 
lightened western world. In three 
lines the majestic column of vessels 
moves towards the outlet of the Gulf. 
Our Massachusetts men are in the 
middle line, number six in the list. So 
near her neighbors is the Knicker- 
bocker that the closest watch is neces- 
sary lest collisions follow, and even 
then they are not always escaped. 

As the trip progresses, the beautiful 
tint of blue of the water is noted, 
though some of the men in their sea- 
sickness are oblivious to the attractions 
of their surroundings, and lucky the 
man or boy whose stomach is proof 
against the attacks of Neptune. There 
is a whole week to be beguiled in some 
way before Cuba is reached, and in- 
genuity will be taxed to find diversions 
for all this number of irrepressible 
humanity. Out of sight of land, there 
was not a deal of variety, and some of 
the diaries kept afforded no more inci- 
dent than that of the ocean traveler of 
whom Mark Twain records that his 
daily entries finally dwindled to "Got 
up, ate, went to bed." though that 
occasion was duly chronicled when 
certain of the ships crew attacked a 
venal, grasping porter and compelled 
him to disgorge four dollars which he 
had unjustlv taken from the men, and 
not only gave it back to the soldiers, 
but also gave out the stock of the 
usurer, and then, knocking the fellow- 
down, "stepped on him." Some super- 
stitious voyager threw overboard the 
black cat which had started with the 
Company, declining to think such a 
feline in the class of mascots. The 
boys while away the monotonous hours 
asking themselves c[uestions like these : 
"What does the doctor give for a 
broken leg?" Ans. "Salts." 

"\\'hat does he give for seasickness?" 
Ans. "Salts." 

"What is his remedy for a sore toe l" 
Ans. "Salts." 



"W hat shall we have for breakfast?" 
Ans. "I 'rime roast beef." 

"What shall we have for dinner?" 
Answer, tiie same as above; and thus 
through the meals of the dav. 

Fortunately there is no cf)nvention- 
ality and the men dress very much as 
they like. A pair of pantaloons is full 
dress, and one lad declares that certain 
ones wear only a smile. There is little 
reading aboard ; in the start so much 
time was devoted to fixing for the body 
that the mental outfit was forgotten. 
However, one lad had an Outlook, an 
Independent, a Black Cat and a Alun- 
sey. Though his name was plainly 
written on each pamphlet he found his 
ship exercise in trying to keep track of 
his lil:)rary. Personal appearance was 
not improved in these earlier days of 
raising a beard. Seemingly the barber 
had been left behind, and the conse- 
quent stubble of from one to tw^o weeks 
was something to remember. 

All this time the men w^ere likely to 
have more or less colloquy with the 
captain, who apparently was nnich like 
the old Dutchman whom Washington 
Irving used to describe. "Fool Cap- 
tain" was a mild term compared with 
some of those applied to this son of 
Neptune. He w-as seemingly proud of 
his craft and naturally did not relish 
the flings and jibes which were con- 
stantly ringing in his ears. Yet after- 
wards tlie men were delighted to 
learn that when they were well off 
the boat and he had another party 
aboard, he could not talk loud enough 
in ])raise of those gallant fellows from 
Massachusetts. So eccentriic was he. 
some of the men even questioned his 
sanitv. 

There was abundant opportunity to 
study the characteristics of other craft 
than the Knickerbocker, and at sight 
of the Miami, some one recalled the 
description of her given by Lieutenant 
Benchley. Worcester's West Point boy 
who went down in battle at San Juan. 
He said she looked like a cross between 
Noah's Ark and a roof-garden. The 
appositeness of the simile was evident 
to any one seeing her towering so far 
out of the w^ter. Glimpses of land are 
had at times as the fleet sails along the 



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north coast of the Island, and the ship- 
men are al)le to inihcate the situation 
of the ni<.)re iin])ortant phices such as 
Havana, .Matanzas, etc. 

At 10 a.m. of the 20th, the fleet was 
withiin sig'ht of the harbor of Santiago 
and the question of destination was 
apparently settled. It was a case, how- 
ever, of "so near and yet so far," for 
the landing', so longed for, was still 
some hours away. The fleet was to 
stand off some miles from the shore, 
to be well closed up and ready to obey 
orders readily. On the 21st, the fleet 
again pulled in nearer the landing, but 
no command of debarkation was heard, 
and at night another putting out to sea 
was had ; so far, indeed, did they go that 
in the morning, that of the 22nd, for 
aught the soldiers knew, they were lost. 
However, the captain had his ship so 
well in hand that he soon came u]i with 
other members of his flotilla. He ex- 
plained the situation saying that the 
fleet was lost, they were all right. They 
got back just in time to see the bom- 
bardment of Daiquiri, where the land- 
ing On Cuban soil was to be made. At 
1.30 p.m. General Shafter's boat ran 
alongside and, through a megaphone, 
he asked for Colonel Clark, wanting to 
know where he had been, saying that 
this load was to have Ijeen the very first 
to land, and directing us to i)ull in to 
about a quarter of a mile from the shore 
and deljark at once. 

The captain dared not gi > niucli 
nearer than one mile, and at 2.30 the 
first boat-load left, and the dejiartures 
followed so that at 5.15 the ist I'.attal- 
ion was all nlT. It was imt till 7 a.m. of 
the 23rd that llie unloading <'i the 1st 
r.attalion began, the Light Infantry 
going first. Sergeant Wentworth was 
ordered to bring off a box of hardtack 
and a case of canned beef, a wise ])ro- 
vision, for the march to join the re- 
mainder of the regiment at nnce pre- 
vented pro])er attention to commissary 
matters. It was 10 o'clock in the fore- 
noon that the men were all ashore and 
Ijegan sizing up the land about which 
they had heard so much and to take a 
glance at the people in whose behalf 
thev had left their own Immes, and 
the universal opinion was that if the 



si)eciniens liefore them were fair sam- 
ples, then the Cubans were no great 
shakes after all. Note the description 
"made by <iur artist on the spot": They 
are mostly short of stature, wear little 
clothing, but each one has a gun or 
machete, or both. One fellow not over 
fifteen years of age, with face of ebon 
blackness, clothed in trousers one leg 
of which is entirely gone and the other 
parth, wearing no covering on the 
up|_)er part of his body, carries a 
rifle over his shoulder, has a belt full of 
ammunition, and in the other hand 
carries a two-pound can of lieef. The 
grin upon his face extends from ear to 
ear and betokens contentment with all 
the earth. 

These young men of ours, who are 
taking this Cuban trip, are boys in na- 
ture as well as years, and it is not at all 
strange that they lose little time in sam- 
pling the resources of the locality. Not- 
withstanding all of man's boasted men- 
tality, he has never gotten away from 
his stomach, and something good to 
eat is ever a prominent subject in his 
mind. In this respect he differs frotn 




LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



107 



the lower orders only in degree. and the 
hungrier lie becomes the nearer he ap- 
proaches the creature from which, 
through generations of survival, he is 
supposed to have sprung. Here is the 
record of one of the company just oil 
the boat, and whose stomach is bigger 
than all thoughts of Cuba lihrc: "Then 
G. S. and I started off to see what we 
could find in the way of grub, ^^'e met 
F. D. coming back with a chicken in his 
hand, and he said he gave fifty cents for 
it. He claimed to have bought it of a 
woman who could speak nothing but 
Spanish, and after making all kinds of 



in departing tried to destroy everything 
thai was destructible, but they failed 
to run off a large quantity of wine stored 
here, forty barrels of which fell into our 
hands; and though soon guarded and 
held for hospital purposes, some of the 
prying Americans had found it soon 
enough to get merry over its imbibing. 
What the average soldier can not find, 
when given an opportunity, is hardly 
worth seeking. The Cuban soldiers were 
not objects of soul-felt affinity to the 
newly arrived. Long years of associa- 
tion with the Island andUts needs had 
produced a carelessness as to personal 




COMPANY C IN YBOR CITY. 



signs he took the chicken in une hand 
and a fifty-cent [liece in the other and 
offered her the choice : she took the 
money. A man who could speak Eng- 
lish told the Yankee that this act of his 
had raised the price of chickens 300 per 
cent, ^^'e tried quite a nundier of 
places at which we hoped to find a 
chicken, but we couldn't make the 
folks understand what we wanted. I 
carried a feather and George the money, 
but the people couldn't catch on." 

At this point were located the Spanish- 
American Iron Works, including shops, 
railroad tracks, cars, engines, etc. Also, 
here they had powder mills. The enemy 



appearance wholly unreconcilable to 
American ways. Our men were accus- 
tomed to pretty nearly a whole suit of 
clothes, while to the native, clothing or 
raiment was not of much consequence 
when compared with food, and the 
readiness with which raw bacon was 
devoured by the Cuban made our men 
stare. That Cuban privates should 
carry their officers across the water- 
runs was quite an object lesson to our 
boys reared in habits altogether demo- 
cratic. 

Statements of the time of starting on 
that first day's march from Daiquiri are 
somewhat vague, probably because all 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



ilid not advance at tlie same moment, 
and then some creneralized on the ap- 
parent position of the sun. If it were 
stated that it was towards noon on the 
23d that the first march on Cuban soil 
beg'an, it would be sufificieiitly near the 
truth. Roads in the Massachusetts sense 
do not exist in that belated land, but 
trails are substituted, and these are nar- 
row, so much so that it is difficult for 
two to walk abreast. A twelve-mile 
tramp brink's the Company to its first 
camping place on a hillside. This trail 
proved to be an exceedingly bard one 
to the men, just oflf the transports, and 
many were quite overcome by the tem- 
perature and the Inirdens. Indeed, Cap- 
tain Allen f(jund it necessary to halt be- 
fore his Company did, and, by the side 
of a fine spring, secured the rest which 
enabled him, the following day, to come 
up with the others. Company C did not 
start away from the landing place in- 
tact, (|uite a number of men, some nine- 
teen in all, having been detailed tore- 
main with Lieutenant King to bringup 
all arrearages, a deed fully accomplished 
on the 24th. It was on this first march 
that the men were introduced to the 
nourishing possibilities of green co- 
coanut milk, and the agility manifested 
in climbing a palm for its delicious 
fruit was a tribute to the young men's 
gymnastic training, .A.t Siboney or 
Juragua, only five miles away from the 
landing place as the crow wmilil tly, 
but representing twelve miles of weary 
marching, the Second lay till the 24th, 
some of its members getting their 
first taste of hospital, 'incurred through 
the extreme heat. Let one of the lads 
speak for himself: "I felt dizzy, and 
was carried (i\er to the hospital on a 
stretcher. 'I'lu- liMspital, b_\- the way, is 
a blockhouse built liy the Sjjaniards, I 
lay there all day withdut anything to 
eat, and in the e\rning when my regi- 
ment went nil, 1 was left at the brigade 
hospital. 'I'lu-re I saw some (if the fel- 
lows wounded in the 'Rough Riders'' 
engagement. W hen I was lying in 
111}- tent in the nir)rning, I could hear 
the firing, seemingly about two miles 
away, lasting something more than an 
hour. The killed included one <if the 
1st Cavalry, two from the loth Colored, 



and ten from the Rough Riders, and 
thirlv-fi\e were wounded. The Span- 
iards were in ambush, and had a 
chance to kill all of the Rough Riders, 
who were easy marks. The coming 
up of the Tenth saved the Rough 
Riders, whom our boys often denomi- 
nated 'Wood's Weary Walkers.' The 
accommodations are not much. The 
wounded men are laid in a rude build- 
ing on the floor, the very worst cases 
being taken to the hospital boat. Don't 
ever get into a hospital in war, if you 
can help it : I mean one that does not 
belong til your own regiment, and none 
of them are any too good. They feed 
you what they please, and tell you to 
get out before you are able to walk. 
This was my experience. One of the 
Rough Riders was brought in sick, and 
the surgeon told him there was nothing 
the matter with him. This did not suit 
the men wdio had brought theircomrade, 
so they went back, four miles, and told 
their lieutenant-colonel. It didn't take 
the latter a great while to put in an ap- 
pearance, and to give that surgeon a 
most genteel dressing down. He fin- 
isheij up by telling the surgeon that he 
would lose his job. The mighty saw- 
bones took oil his hat and begged a 
thousand pardons, but 'Teddy' simply 
said that he didn't wish to have any- 
thing more to do with him." Evidently 
the future President's sharp tongue is 
not altogetheii a late creation. 

Every soldier in Cuba has a head full 
of crab memories. In number and size 
they by far eclipsed anything ever seen 
by them before. One of the men on 
guard declared he halted one of them, 
thinking him a man; while another ve- 
racious soldier declared that one of the 
rascals had scuttled oft' with his pipe. 
When, some days later, this spot became 
the site of a hospital, and one of the 
colored patients was asked if there was 
anything that could be done to enhance 
his comfort, the poor fellow, to whose 
disordered fancy these monsters had 
become exceedingly repulsive, replied, 
"Yes, build around me a fence six feet 
high and strong enough to keep out 
these terrible cree])ers." As they made 
their \\,i\ through the brush, some de- 
clare<l lhe\- made as much noise as a 



LU'.IIT IXFAXTKV, 



IMI'AXV 



109 



horse. The hah here afforded nppnrtu- 
nity for .sah-water baths, and an oppor- 
tunity to see the transports unloaded. 
Here it was that the hatless messen- 
ger came up on horseback asking for 
help, since the l\ough Riders were hard 



eral. We were immediately ordered 
under arms, and remained so for about 
an hour." The 8th and the 22d were 
sent forwardinstead.but on their arrival 
the enemy had withdrawn. Fortunately 
lor tile famous Riders who never rode, 




G. W. Stebb 



OlneyT. Aldsich. 

WiNFIELD D. RhEI-TAN. EmI 

ENLISTED MEN OF CO.Ml'AXV C. 



pressed at Las Guasimas. Lieutenant 
King writes. 'T directed him to Cieneral 
Lawton's headquarters, and a second 
courier, arriving a moment later, I sent 
to Lieut. -Col. E. R. Shumway, then 
commanding the regiment, as Colonel 
Clark was then Acting Brigadier Gen- 



the 1st and lotli Cavalry, by another 
route, had come up just in the nick of 
time, and so saved the venturesome 
soldiers from even worse troubles. 

At 8 p.m. on this 24th day of June, 
the Company w'ent to the shore to draw 
rations for three davs, among other 



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WORCESTEK IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



items getting a gallon can of |)rcser\e(l 
tomatoes, involving a Inirden which nd 
provident disposition would warrant in 
carrying any considerable distance. As 
a consec(uence many a can was thrown 
away — a dead loss to the soldier and to 
the department which furnished such 
unreasonable rations. The camp was 
abandoned at 5.30 p.m., and a start was 
made along the route already traversed 
by Roosevelt's men. Company C being 
the rear guard. Two hours' marching 
through characteristic Cuban thickets 
brought the men to where they could 
see the results of this first day's encoun- 
ter, for here the colored troops were 
burying their fallen comrades. The 
burial service, read by the chaplain, a 
dirge by the band, three volleys over the 
new-made graves and then "taps," told 
to all hearers the brief story of mortality. 
Then through the darkness the mile- 
long column stumbled along over roads 
indescribable in their roughness, some- 
times in the beds of streams now dry ; 
everywhere through vegetation so 
dense that it had afforded perfect hid- 
ing places to an enterprising enemy, 
which, fortunately for these boys, did 
not e.xist in their immediate vicinity, 
and cam]) at last was pitched by the 
side of the Rough Riders, whose dead 
were lying under a tree near by. 

Lieutenant King says this of the scene 
of the fight : "Saturday, the 25th, I arose 
early, and with several officers went 
over the grounds ; a better place for a 
small body of troops to stand oS an 
army was never seen. The two trails 
over which the two columns had ap- 
proached meet here at almost right an- 
gles, and both running up hill. 1 think 
500 U. S. soldiers could have held the 
position against an army." The stop at 
this point was short, though in the time 
the Light Infantry had so generously 
given of their own rations to the poorly- 
provided-for Rough Riders that in sub- 
sequent hours some of the Worcester 
boys went hungry. At 6.45 the advance 
again began, and continued for, pos- 
sibly, two miles, till at Sevilla, on a 
fine grassy tract, the weary soldiers 
were ]5ermittcd to pitch their tents. 

While in this camp two batteries of 
artillery came up and two dynamite 



guns, and an officer, in whom the hunt- 
ing ilisixisition was developed, remarks, 
on his hearing the whistling of a cjuail, 
making him almost homesick in the 
memories the sound aroused. Later he 
says he saw large numbers of the bird. 
It was in this camp that orders were 
issued against the eating of green man- 
goes, it being understood from the na- 
tives that the fruit at this time was ex- 
ceedingly harmful. All of these days 
were filled with vicissitudes for an hon- 
est young soldier. One day a mechanic 
was called for, and Eddie S. of C ver\' 
properly volunteered. When he re- 
turned, after an absence of several 
hours, he was seen to wear a very much 
abused look, and inquiries developed 
the fact that the skilled workman could 
not see where his mechanical ability 
was particularly drawn upon in the 
carrying of logs, for that was the work 
he had been doing during his absence. 
Such breaches of confidence begat 
wariness in the minds of these astute 
youngsters, and the same lad was not 
often caught a second time, at any rate 
not with the same bait. Picket duty and 
general scouting expeditions enable 
the men to pretty thoroughly learn 
their surroundings. Rain and shine 
alternate, so far as the weather is con- 
cerned, and so hoi is the sun that wet 
garments are speedily dried. Of the 
variety in a soldier's life, here is an 
excellent picture outlined by the chief 
character in the scene : "I carry my 
coffee and hardtack in the toe of a 
stocking which is tied to my belt, be- 
cause of the smallness of my haversack 
and the necessity of carrying ammuni- 
tion, clothing, etc. The coffee is given 
out in the berry, and when we would use 
it we have to grind it ourselves, and this 
we do by beating it between two 
stones. Now, I had a glass jar of extract 
of beef which I was keeping, in case of 
an emergency, in the toe of another 
stocking. Yesterday, when I went to 
pound my coffee, I got hold of the 
wrong stocking and pounded up my jar 
of extract of beef. I was awfully sorry, 
but it turned out all right, since we are 
awfully short of food just now; bo I 
boiled the stocking and extract, get- 
tinstherefroma right down good feed." 



LIGHT I^"F.\^■TU^■. COM PAW 



111 



Reveille, to a suldicr always early, 
sounded earlier than usual mi theJjth. 
for it was at 4.20 that the well-kuowu 
notes were heard, and s( m m after the 
Company started, marching about four 
miles to reach a point not more than 
two miles oiif, in a straight line. Here 
camp was again pitched and men from 
C Company, with some from D, were 
put on outpost duty some distance from 
the regiment. Towards the enemy, 
hospital buildings in Santiago were vis- 
ible, and the fort and block-houses of 
El Caney also appeared. Indeed, the 



indulgence in the fruit, wh.icli aljounds 
e\ery where, it is the rainy season too, 
and to be wet to the skin is generally 
the rule. Sometimes, in the night, the 
boys remove their clothing, and wrap- 
ping it in their rubber blankets to kee]) 
it dry, enjoy for themselves a long 
shower bath of the falling rain; cool 
and comfortable. Ijut not just exactly 
presentable. 

The firing of a gun on the outpost did 
not necessaril}' mean that the enemy 
was in a belligerent mood, but rather 
that the sentr\- in his \'igilance lias mis- 




EXLISTED MEX. C()MP.\XV C. 



position was such that a panoramic 
view was had of a deal of the Spanish 
line. Certain scouting parties were sent 
out, but they failed to reveal any in- 
dications of the enemy. Possibly had 
they gone farther they might have 
found the object of their search. The 
country itself abounds in everything 
that a tropical region can produce, but 
medical restraint prevents unlimited 



taken some crawling thing for a prowd- 
ing Spaniard, hence discharges his 
weapon, to the discomfiture of h's com- 
rades and the indignation of the offi- 
cers. How the enemy felt no one can 
tell. Late in the afternoon of the 28th a 
sound was heard that was exceedingly 
welcome to the hungry members of the 
Company. It was not exactly a dinner 
bell, though it announced the arrival of 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



food. It was the small tinkle on the 
neck of the bell horse, and so indicated 
the arrival of the pack-train with long 
delayed rations for those famishing sol- 
diers. The rations of bacon and hard- 
tack which were soon distributed were 
not large, but they were gratefully re- 
ceived, and the men in eating them 
wondered if they ever had been really 
hungry in the old days at home. Sugar 
and coiTee, luxuries for the American 
soldier, wherever serving, also were re- 
ceived in small cjuantities and refreshed 
many a drooping spirit, for no matter 
how brave a man may be he never gets 
away from his stomach and its cravings. 
Probably the remark is much older than 
Gen. Sherman, but he is credited with 
saving that an army moves on its belly. 
The location of the camp is possibly 
fourteen miles from the landing, but dis- 
tances are multiplied when the difficul- 
ties of communication are considered. 
Hence the hard work to keep the men 
supplied with food. Ridiculous sums 
were offered for hardtack, with few sales 
reported, because there was nothing to 
sell. One boy remarks that the grass 
near his camping place is two feet tall, 
and he further states that if Uncle Sam 
held that territory the whole world 
could not prevail against it. so strong 
are the natural fortifications. Fine as 
is the location of the camp, the men 
have to go a mile and a half for water, 
and this, too, in a thirsty land. Field- 
glasses revealed a deal of activity on 
the jiart of the enemy, and he could be 
readily seen throwing up intrench- 
ments, evidently intending to hold out 
as long as possible. [Military duties were 
not of so arduous a nature that the men 
cciuldnot study animated nature. From 
the tarantula and chameleon, upon the 
ground, to a black parrot building his 
nest in a tree, all were objects of hourly 
study to these Yankee boys. The 2ytli 
of June found the regiment still in 
camp, with accustomed rains, and word 
is passed around that on the following 
day an attack will be made upon the 
enemy's works. What would army life 
be without rumors, and what a revela- 
tion it would be to find out just how 
they originate. Xo man ever traced one 
to its prime beginning. They were ever 



as unsubstantial as a dream. Here, too, 
the boys had a fine opportunity to 
judge the beauty of "taps," when the 
dulcet sound goes from camp to camp. 
To paraphrase the remark of the great 
Jonathan Fdwards concerning the 
strawberry, "Probably man could have 
made a lovelier combination of harmo- 
nious sounds than those which make 
up taps, but probably man never did." 

The. last day of June brought orders 
to prepare rations, and to be ready to 
move at a minute's warning. It was 
after four o'clock when the Company 
started from its camp, and joining the 
regiment, drew two days' rations and a 
large quantity of ammunition, and after 
a wait of considerable duration, at 
about six p.m. another start was made. 
It was not a stroll for pleasure, for the 
Spaniard had forgotten to build con- 
venient bridges, hence these boys, so 
far from home, had to wade in water 
up to their knees, and climb muddy, 
slippery l.)anks. In the darkness, and 
the silence which they were ordered to 
maintain, the situation was somewhat 
gruesome. The prevailing thought in 
these men's minds was, "When and 
where is all this business to end.''" 

It was a welcome sdund when there 




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113 



came the order to liall, to unroll 
blankets, and to camp l>csi(le the trail. 
From the position of the lights in front, 
the Spaniards were nearer than when the 
march began. Even here, when so tired 
from the hard marching, a careless or 
over-vigilant guard discharges his gun, 
thus murdering the sleep of weary 
soldiers. It is 3,30 a,m. on the 1st of 
July that the men are roused, directed 
to roll their blankets, eat their break- 
fasts and await orders. 

In his "'Fight for Santiago" Stephen 
Bonsai has this passage concerning that 
night march of the Second Regiment : 

"We rode along the trail to the right 



It was 5.30 Ix-fi 'W "fall in" was heard, 
and yet the wait continued. Dame Ru- 
mor circulating the report that a mes- 
senger had been sent to demand the sur- 
render of El Caney, Over at the right 
was Capron's Battery, and its Captain 
was only too anxious to get the com- 
mand to fire, for Iris son, Capt. .A. K. 
Capron, was among the slain in the 
Rough Riders' tight at Las ( Juasimas, It 
is fully six o clock when he receives the 
welcome order and the bombardment 
begins, but the distance is too great to 
be effective. Let <jne who was there 
tell the story of his coin|)an\- in his nwn 
languasre : 




before the sun rose, while the forest was 
as still as death and the great dewdrops 
clustered upon the plantain leaves like 
pearls. The mists of the morning still 
hung over the valley of Caney as we 
rode out upon the little plateau over- 
looking it. Slowly, stealthily, a colunm 
of volunteers was disappearing down 
into the valley below, where it was still 
night. It was a strange and surprising 
thing to hear the 'burr' of the Connecti- 
cut valley men in tropical surroundings 
such as these. They were the .Second 
Massachusetts \'olunteers going to the 
front." 



"At seven we moved, and then 1 
learned that the first two battalions, 
with the exception of I Company, had 
gone ahead while we had been held 
back by General Lawton's order, since 
the firing of the artillery was directly 
across the road that we would have to 
take. For some time after the firing 
began, there was no answer from the 
enemy, but shortly before we moved we 
heard the guns of their infantrv-, so that 
we knew our own boys were alread}' at 
work. Bv 'our boys' I mean the Eighth 
and the Twenty-second, which had pre- 
ceded our regiment, or in military par- 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



lanCL' were nn the ri^ht. Finally we 
moved forward and tnrned down a 
rough trail under the line of artillery 
firing' and into a valley and across an 
abandoned plantation. We pressed for- 
ward and struck the Santiago road snon 
after, turned to the right and went in the 
direction of the tiring. 

"As we drew nearer liuUets liegan to 
slash thnuigh the grass and cut the 
brush a1)i>ut us. Tiiere wa^ an oiien 



and again they would come swishing 
through the grass or hit a tree near by 
with a dull thud. Todd, who lay next 
t'l me, had a bullet pass through his 
canteen, rendering it useless. (J'idc 
Todd's statement later, page ii8.) 

"I wondered why more were not hit, 
and 1 thought of the terrible ravages a 
bullet would make if it should hit a man 
when King down. If it struck his left 
^-hiiuldcr, it would go through the entire 




Corp. J. W. Ho 



tiejij at llie right, and Alajdr l''airbanks 
marched us in ;uid ordered us to remove 
our rolls and lie down. .\f(er ha\'ing 
attempted to iT|)ort oiu- arri\'al. in the 
absence of orders, he deployed us and 
started to advance. .\t this stage three 
men in our section were wounded, Ijut 
not dangerously, though one of theni 
moaned pitifullv. -As I lay with my 
head to the front 1 could hear the hum 
of the Indicts ijassing over me, and n<iw 



bod\. 1 wished I mig'ht stand up, for 
then a bidlet could only go through a 
short sn.'ce, but of course a man lying 
down presents a nnich less conspicuous 
mark than one standing upright. At 
the conunand "forward' every man went 
grandh' and proudly, though every one 
felt that he might be going to his death. 
The womidcd and the dead were carried 
by constantly an<l we were seeing war 
in all its Imrrors. The infantrv firing 



LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



115 



was incessant, and sounded like the 
popping of corn over hot coals, only the 
whistle and kiss of the bullets and the 
frequent bursting of the copper jackets 
on the bullets, used by some of the 
Spaniards, added another sound to the 
popping. 

■'After advancing several hundred 
yards the battalion was halted, and an 
hour later we were assembled in a shel- 
tered position by the Colonel, with 
whom we had ■ managed to connect. 
After a considerable pause here we were 
again deployed and moved to the right, 
down a trail to the front to support a 
battery which was brought up from the 
rear so it might be more effective. Some 
of the regiment were slightly protected 
by a dirt bank, but our Company lay out 
in the open, near a path over which the 
wounded were carried on their way to 
the rear, a situation of which the Span- 
ish sharpshooters were soon aware. 
When we were obliged to send for 
water it was at a great risk, but the men 
cheerfully and bravely undertook it. 

"In onr rear a man was seen in the 
top of a tree, but he proved to be a 
Cuban without a gun. He was promptly 
ordered down, and the next day any Cu- 
ban, .'^paniar<l. or other race, found up a 



|,.^»,- ^'B^;. 




Col. K. I'. Clark 



tree v.as shot at sight, for we had no 
desire to be marks for sharpsiiootcrs. 
We la\- in the broiling sun all daw ad- 
vancing little by little .Most of us hatl 
eaten nothing sine-- four o'clock in the 
morning, and (|uite a number were over- 
come bv the heat, the thermometer on 
that Tul\- day mounting to 130 degrees. 
About four o'clock the Twelfth and the 
Twenty-fifth made a charge and drove 
the S]Kuiiards out of their trenches. 
During this close encounter the bullets 
came our way in earnest, and T thought 
the enemy was trving to make a break 
through our lines, but nothing came 
of it. ' 

"In about half an hour the American 
flag was raised on the fort amid the 
cheers of our men. Just here General 
Ludlow rode up and said, 'Where in the 

d 1 are the block-houses they sav 

they cannot take?' "i will knock them 
all to pieces." Then he ordered up Ca- 
pron's Battery, now in our rear, while we 
moved out of the way, letting the big 
guns get in their work, which they did 
much more effectually than in the morn- 
ing. Two block-houses in a line were the 
objectives. The first shot struck be- 
tween the two, the second struck the 
further house, the third hit the roof of 
the first, the foiu-th and the fifth com- 
pleted the demolition of the structures, 
and the few Spaiiiar<ls who were left 
alive ran away. 

"At five o'clock we were sent back for 
our rolls and haversacks, and we ex- 
pected to camp for the night, but no 
such boon as a good night's sleep was 
in store for us. Though we had been 
imdcr fire ten hours, and the night be- 
fore had been spent almost wholly in 
marching or waiting, we were now 
started oft' on t'e main road for San- 
tiago to help the other part of our army 
that, during the day, had been fighting 
on the slopes of the surrounding hills. 
At one o'clock a.m. came the welcome 
conunand to halt, and we slept for two 
hours and then were off again, moving 
b\ the left flank, or, in other words, the 
order of yesterday's march was re- 
versed, for then ourCompany was in the 
rear ; now it led the brigade. We swung 
off the main road, down a narrow trail 
which, owing to the dense undergrowth. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SI'AXISH WAR. 



became so dark tliat eacli man took 
hold of the jacket of the man in front of 
liim so that we could more easily keep 
toj:^ether. We crossed a stream, went 
up a slippery bank, passed El Poso, 
taken the day before, and on towards 
the trenches which surrounded Santi- 
ago, getting there early in the fore- 
noon of the 2d. 

"The most of the day we spent in dig- 
ging trenches, that we might be able to 
hold our position on the hill, but the 
work was done under great difficulties, 
since there was a raking iire all day and 
our only tools were mess-pans, spoons 
and knives. Fortunately, the breast- 
works proved too strong for the enemy, 
who. at ten o'clock that night, made an 
unsuccessful effort to take them. For 



saniie tree. LSeing a generous fellow he 
shared his store of hardtack with me. 
Our talk drifted to the important ques- 
tion as to whether we could prevent the 
enemy retaking the hill. I told him of 
our hard time in trying to dig trenches 
without pickaxe or shovel, and said I 
should like to get a sword bayonet, with 
which I cou'd work much faster. He 
said there was one on the other side of 
the tree. I started to get it and while 
stooping to pick it up. a bullet went zip 
close to me. I thought at first that it 
had hit the ground close to my feet, and 
said, half aloud. 'Rather a close call." but 
thought nothing more of it until I saw 
the man with wlmm T had been talking. 
Flis head wa^ di'ii(i]iing and his bndy 
bent forward. 




four days and three niglus we had had 
very little sleep and \ery short rations, 
the most of the time having been de- 
voted to marching, receiving the fire of 
the enemy and digging. On our way 
up to this position, after crossing the 
first stream. I grew very tired, and see- 
ing a large tree invitingly near, I 
thought 1 would get a litth- shade as 
well as a few moments' |irotection from 
the bullets, wliieli were uncomfi irtabl) 
munerous. 

"While sitting on the least exposed 
side of the tree and wishing for some- 
thing to eat, along came a Sixth L'. .'^. 
Cavalryman, who took refuge under the 



"( letting down on my knees I in- 
(|uired if anything was the matter with 
him and he said 'I'm hit.' and pointed 
to his side. Right l>elow his ribs I dis- 
covered a hole which was so small that 
I should hardly have noticed it had it 
not been for the httle black and blue 
spot where the bullet had entered, but it 
was bleeding internally, for there was 
not a trace of blood to be seen. I asked 
liim what I could do for him. and he 
called for a drink of water. He had 
turned deathly pale, but complained 
very little. T hailed som-e passers-by, 
anil ;isked them tn hel]i me. Six of us 
took him in a blanket and started for 



LICHT INFANTRY, COMPAXV 



117 



the hospital, about three hundred yards 
away. We had gone perhaps fifty yards 
when one of our number uttered a cry 
and sank to the ground. He liad been 
shot in the ankle. One of our party took 
the second wounded man on his back 
and started again for the hospital. His 
wound must have been painful, for he 
begged his bearer to put him down. 
When we reached the hospital, 1 
thought the cavalryman was dead, but I 
know nothing more of him. I went 
back to the tree for my gun and roll. 
As my own gun had disappeared 1 took 
that of the dead trooper." 

It was July 1st that Captain .\llen was 



were met many army wagons loaded 
with woimded going u> the rear, the 
regiment pa.ssed near "Ulcmily Mend." 
so called, where the road takes a turn 
towards the San Juan River. The local- 
ity was thus named from the number of 
deaths during the fight, when concealed 
sharpshooters swept the entire space. 
The river itself is reached as the batter- 
ies of Grimes and Capron coniic rolling 
back from the front, having l)een com- 
pelled to abandon their positions on ac- 
count of the intensity of the enemy's 
fire. To the onlooking infantrymen 
the dash through the river by the artil- 
ler\- was an insjiiring one. they coming 







HBjM 


^^^^^^^ 



compelled to give up and go to the hos- 
pital. Rheumatism of the severest char- 
acter had him in its grasp, and there 
^"'^n"e'\ 'i*^'P ''5'" ■'"''"'' '" t'l^ field. His 
'^"'^le of ti-'^P^'"*"''^ from the Company 
\Sc,-3 regretted by all, and by no one 
more than by the officer himself. As his 
ailment did not yield to treatment in 
Cuba, he was obliged to return to Wor- 
cester, and not till Montauk was 
reached did he see hij men again. ( )n 
the march from El Caney to the 
trenches before Santiago, after passing 
El Poso.throu£;'h a lane or road in which 



out verv near the spot where, the day 
before. Lieutenant Benchley, a Worces- 
ter bov. who was serving in the Sixth 
Regulars, was instantly killed. The ap- 
proach to San Juan hill was none too 
eas\-. the way having to be cut through 
the intervening barbed wire. Compa- 
nies C and H were at once put upon 
the firing line, just under the crest of 
the hill, but they were not kept there 
long, being soon withdrawn to a less 
exposed place, very likely on account 
of the archaic weapons the boys were 
oblisred to carrv. Later a move was 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



made to the right, where intrenching 
was the order of the day. 

Reference haviing been made to the 
woundiing' of Private Todd, the follow- 
ing letter, written April 13, 1903, is 
apropos : "We had thrown off haver- 
sacks, rolls, etc., and left the same with 
Fred Dean and another man, detailed 
to take care of them, retaining onlv the 



which in some way had gotten imder 
me, rendered me so uncomfortable that 
I raised myself on my left arm, and 
reaching under grasped the canteen and 
gave it a toss over onto my left hip. 
1 had hardly come back to my original 
posiition of resting on my elbows, with 
my gun grasped in anticipation of an 
order to advance again, when a bullet 




cliithing we wnrc, tugetlicr with guns, 
anununition and canteens, .\dvancing' 
in skirmish line, we were soon in the 
zone where bullets were flying and sing- 
ing jjast, and were ordered to He down 
and to get under cover as much as pos- 
siljle. I was not fortunate enough tn 
get under any cover, so had to lie in 
an open space, where probably some 
sharpshooter of the enemy got his eye 
on me. I had been lying in this place 
but a slinrt time when niv canteen. 



zi]]]ie(l past my left ear, and, striking 
the canteen, which a moment Ije'ij]!.- i 
had thrown t<i my left hirtd, butSO^t 
through it, and then grazed the tlesuy 
part of the thigh, just above the bone, 
and finally went, I know not where. I 
still have the canteen with the hole 
thri)ugh it, and I know from the deut, in 
addition to the jagged hole, that it 
glanced and thus saved me from a 
broken hip. Xot thinking I liad much 
of a wound, though m\ thigh was so 



I.nUIT INFANTRY, COMl'AXV C. 



119 



sore I could not lie on it the following 
two nights, I made no mention of it, be- 
ing a little bit afraid of being thought 
childish over a small matter, so the 
boys did not really know that the bullet 
had more than passed throug-h niv can- 
teen till two days afterwards, when, go- 
ing in bathing with my tentmate. Cha- 
pin. I showed him the result of the hit. 
He prevailed upon me to go round, 
letting the boys know how close a call 
I had had. They made lots of fun of 
me, saying that I didn't know when I 
was shot, which was partly true, as I 
did not stop to actually find out until 
the second day. for immediately after 
the fight came the march to San Juan 
hill, the intrenching, and the night at- 
tack, and there was not time to ex- 
amine the condition of my bodv. 

"Noting what the iMagazine has had 
concern'ing the number thirteen in the 
annals of the Second, I may say that I 
formed one of a squad of thirteen new 
men who passed examination for enlist- 
ment at the Armory and wound up with 
having to share tent No. 13 with As- 
sistant Bugler Chapin. and. by the wa\-, 
I have written this letter, untliinkinglw 
on the 13th." 

The diary of a Company C man 
gives a ver}- good notion of tlie i^rog- 
ress of events during these July days : 

Sunday, July 3. — Sultry day ; sun 
does not shine bright: continual 
firing over our heads: heavy can- 
nonading in the west : think it 
must be .Sampson : orders to ])ack 
up and be readv to move at 
once : r.o firing now except li\- 
sharpshooters: R. and I., at food, fired 
upon by sharpshooters in a tree: or- 
dered to move at 6 a.m. Monday. 

Monday. July 4. — Up at 4.45 :" break- 
fast and ready to move at 6: started at 
6.45 in an easterly direction towards El 
Caney, the scene of our first battle : 
flag of truce for twenty-four hours : the 
silence seems strange : reach end of 
march on to]i of a hill east of Santiago : 
11.30, heavy firing in the harbor: think 
•it is Sampson trying to get in. 

Tuesday. July 5. — The Company 
turned out to defend our position at 
2.30 a.m., false alarm: turned out again 
at 6 a.m., but found that what we 



thought to be .Spanish soldiers coming 
from the city were Cuban refugees, 
women and children, evacuating San- 
tiago: we wiill have a hot time to-day; 
C.eneral I'ando is reported to have en- 
teretl the city with 6000 reinforce- 
ments : find that yesterday's heavy 
firing was the destroying of the Vis- 
caya : digging trenches nearly all day. 

Wednesday, July 6. — Slept well ; fine 
day. no firing: expect a shell, however, 
any minute : the people who came out 
of the city say that they are in a 
wretched condition, with nothing to 
eat or drink : four batteries planted on 
our hill : have to go a mile for water. 

Thursday, July 7. — Official report of 
the fight with the fleet states all Span- 
ish boats destroyed: 1300 prisoners 
taken, together with Admiral Cervera: 
300 Spaniards killed, while only one 
America-i was killed and two wounded; 
we are within half a mile of the Spanish 
outpost : can see the enemy plainly ; 
trenches all finished, though it has 
been hard digging with plates, knives 
and forks ; we are placing bags of sand 
on top of the intrenchmcnts : truce pro- 
claimed till ID a.m. Saturdav. 

Friday. Juh- 8. — Fine day : get a ma- 
chete from Cuban ; found a native vv'ho 
could speak French ; R. and I. talked 
<|uite a bit with him; captured a mule 
and horse: General Miles arrived at 8 
a.m. : guns ! ! lonesome on guard. 

-Saturday, July 9. — Truce ends at 
noon : fine, fertile valley before me, 
pineapples, bananas, cocoanuts, etc.. 
lemons included : truce resumed. 

-Sunday. July [o. — Taft and Gleason 
sick in hospital; moved at 4 a.m. to the 
northwest of Santiago : city plainly 
seen, bu!l-ri;.g, etc. : they are given till 
4p.m. for unconditional siuTcnder ; 4.45, 
first gun fired at Santiago, and then the 
fusilade beg-an; night put an end to 
firing. 

Alonday. Juh- 11. — I'ire opened 
again, but we get no reply : perhaps 
they are reserving their fire till a 
charge is made: 9 a.m.. again ordered 
to move : went clear around the city to 
the west side, so we have gone nearly 
around the same : nothing but the sea 
prevents a complete encirclement ; we 
are in a very exposed place, not more 



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WORCF.STEK I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 



than 700 \ar<is fnun the ciiL-iny, and I 
don't see why \vc are m.it tired upi 'ii ; in 
camp at 6 p.m. : rains all the time ; 
soaked throug'h and throu.tvh. 

Tuesday, July 12. — ."^tiU raining: 
broke camp in the midst <>f the iiourint^ 
rain ; everybody discouraged and 
s(iaked; it seems as if we were march- 
ing' right into Santiago, so near are we: 
rain- slacked at u m., and then we went 
to disre'ino- trenches ; truce still on ; we 



l-'rida}-, Jiih 15. — I'eeling fine, 
though there is lots of sickness. 

Saturday, July lO. — Word just came 
that Fred Taft died at hospital July 14; 
poor Fred ! leaving wife and child ; 
rheumatism. Everything looks hopeful 
now ; e.xpect to start home soon ; visited 
Spanish cemetery, where artificial 
flowers abound. 

Sundav, July i". — Fine day; 8.15 
a.m., short memorial for ijoor Fred 




: .Stse^ 



are so near the S|)aniards that we can 
liear them talking. 

Wednesday July 13. — More trenches 
to l)e dug: L'ubans are no good : tnoka 
bath, the first for three weeks; 12 ni.. 
raining again ; moved the camp back 
about 75 yards. 

Thursday, Julv 14. — Corporal Hol- 
brook promoted Sergeant : Private El- 
dridge made Corporal : in the trenches 
at 11.^0; truce ends at 12 m. ; 2 p.m., 
no firing yet: 4.30, wortl goes round 
that Santiago is surrendered: 12,000 
men here, and 8,000 east, gives practi- 
cal control of Cuba ; home ! ! ! 



(l^aft); speech by Lieutenant King: 
singing bv the Company and prayer by 
Stewart: <) to i).30, cm the parapet, sort 
of formality salute: 11,45, again on the 
parajiet ; 12 m.. Stars and Stripes 
lioisted over Santiago: salute of 21 
guns: bands played; cheering: great 
rejoicing: this is now U. S. soil ; rations 
issued, which pleased every one, as we 
ate a hungrv dinner ; Dean and Crocker 
went back and marked Taft's grave. 

Alonday, Julv 18. — Fine day: ships 
are coming into the harbor, hospital 
shi]), etc.; the air is full of Jo-Jo ru- 
mors. 



r.iGirr ixI''a\try. compaw 



l-Jl 



Tuesda}-. Jiil\ H). — [■"ine <lav ; l)ccn 
away all day to Cuban village west uf 
Spanish cemetery and down to edge of 
Santiaofo, doing some trading : get a 
belt and pouch ; terribly hot : mail came 
to-day : much sickness. 

Wednesday, July 20. — Terribly hot : 
everybody trying to visit the Cuban 
village or the lines of Santiago ; shall 
be going home soon if there is no fe\er 
in camp. 

Thursday, July 21. — Another fine 
day; does not act like rainy season; is- 
sue of fresh beef rations. Hurrah ! 

I'riday, July 22. — Fine, hot day ; 
another issue of l)eef. 

Saturday, July 2t,. — Fine day; the 
best breakfast since we have been on 
the Island ; the army wagons going by 
look fairly beautiful; Lieutenant King 
in town. 

Sunday, July 24. — Engine running 
on the track for the first time; fresh 
meat for the last three days ; will prob- 
ably have plenty to eat now; many of 
the boys are sick. 

Monday, July 25. — Terribl\- hot ; no 
rain during the day, though it fell in 
the night ; slept in a wet bed, as usual ; 
ordered to change tents across the 
ditches ; 35 men out of 69 sick ; the first 
day that I have been sick s'ince leaving 
Worcester. 

Tuesday, Jul\- 26. — Hot and sultry ; 
ordered Ijack on hill ; order counter- 
manded. 

Wednesday, July 27. — Official notice ; 
the Fifth Corps will leave for Maine as 
soon as the Spanish soldiers depart ; 
thev can't go anv too soon. 

Thursday, July 28.— Still have that 
terrible feeling; aclie all over. 

This is the last entry of the narrator 
until August 10. Evidently his aches 
culminated in a trip to the hospital. 
where so many of his comrades had 
preceded him, and to which sooner or 
later every member of the Infantry had 
to pay tribute. However, there were 
other diarists, and irom another inter- 
esting journal these observations and 
reflections are gleaned : 

"We are told not to eat mangroves. 
They are yellow and look like a pear, 
with a very large stone like a peach. 
They have a peculiar, sweet taste. 



After a nionlh tlu-y say we mav eat 
them, .\lan\- of the streams have <lried 
up during the dr\- season, but now it 
rains two or tlirei' times a day and 
everything is wii ; the grass is up to 
(nie's waist, and would make fine hay, I 
should think. When il rains, it comes 
down in liuckelfuls. and as we have to 
go one and a half miles for water we 
spread rubber blankets to catch it. The 
birds here are good singers, and there 
are a great many of them : mocking- 
birds, kingbirds, blackbirds. catl)irds. 
quails, doves and guinea hens, the lat- 
ter running wild. I took off my clothes 
and went out in the rain yesterday ; tire 
rain was cold and lasted quite a while. 
We wear brown canvas suits, and this 
morning the boys have been turning up 
their coats t(.) make pockets. Envel- 
opes are as scarce as hens' teeth ; also 
paper and stamps, but we do not need 
stamps, as we can send our letters 
without them. 

"The native villages are very pretty. 
The houses are made of bamboo spHt 
sticks, al:)out two inches in diameter. 
and have thatched roofs made of palm 
branches. The fences are six feet hi,gh, 
from the same kind of sticks set close 
together. Household furniture is very 
scarce, with the roughest kind of im- 
plements, such as a log set on end. with 
a hollow in il, and a large wooden stick 
to pound coffee, etc. \\'e find two 
classes of people, the "niggers' and the 
Cubans. All s])eak Spanish, and the 
men are nearly all soldiers. Every 
perse ni carries around a knife about 
eighteen inches long. 

"just in from Cossack guard, 
Wlien we have this duty, in- 
stead of walking our posts we just sit 
down under a tree or behind 
some object that will hide us and so 
watch the movements of the enemy, I 
had a fine post last night. The moon 
was full and it was as light as day. I 
was on a mountain and could see for 
miles around. In the fields were grow- 
ing banana and plantain trees, and I 
could see fields of tall corn and horses 
grazing around. Four of the horses 
were white, and when I saw them 
I thought thev were mien, and 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPAXISH WAR. 



it didn't take mv long to skij) back to 
the corporal of the guard and tell him 
that I had seen some men. He told me 
that he had been watching the horses 
for some time. 

"In cooking we use a tin cu]i. which 
holds a quart, two pans that shut up 
together, one having a handle which 
folds over the other, one spoon, one 
knife, one fork ; the plate is 6x8. Last 
night I bought a knife, such as the 
Cubans use. It is very old and has a 
bone handle, also a leather shield or 
case for it. It will be a souvenir to take 
home from here. I might take one of 
these Cuban 'nigger' kids that run 



is not hotter than some of the nearer 
Southern states in summer. Sands 
wants mie to run a farm here with him 
when the war is over; says there would 
be lots of money in it, and I guess he is 
right, evervthing grows so rapidly. It 
is funny to hear the boys talk about 
home, what they would eat were they 
there, and how soon they would go to 
work. One boy says, 'I wish I had a 
piece of strawberry shortcake;' the 
most of them, however, wish for oat- 
meal, beefsteak and something sub- 
stantial. Almost all of the Cubans go 
barefooted. I don't see how they can, 
for the greater part of th'e trees have 




around here naked. It seems such a 
pity to see the fine houses in ruins all 
over the coimtry. They arc made of 
fine lirick. with tiled lloors, nmst of 
them of one story; none of them ex- 
ceed two stories. Barbed wire every- 
where. One can hardly go lOO yards 
without running up against a fence. 
Whether the Spaniards ])ut it u]) to 
trouble us. or it has been used by tlie 
Cubans, 1 don't know, but the Ignited 
States knew what it was about when it 
furnished each company with wire clip- 
pers, and they have not been idle. 

"Looking toward Santiago, Kincaid 
counted fifteen Spanish houses with 
Red Cross flags on them. The weather 



thorns, and every prick means a sore. 
Lieutenant Warren is on the General's 
staff; the Captain is absent, sick, hence 
Lieutenant King is in command. Last 
night the mail came and George Far- 
row received thirteen letters. Yester- 
day the Cubans captured three cows 
and five horses, and in the afternoon 
they killed on!e of the cows. I went 
over and managed to eet a piece of the 
lights and bone, wliich I stewed this 
morning, and so we had a good soup. 

"Getting HoO and cooking grub take 
the most of the time. The boys can eat 
constantly if there is anything to eat. 
and if there isn't they sit around and 
wait for it to come their way. All of 



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123 



the rations come by pack trains of 
abont twenty-five mules. The leader 
wears a bell and there are three drivers 
mounted on other mules with whips to 
keep them going. Gus, the German 
cook, has a small mule. It belonged to 
a Cuban major, and this morning we 
saw three mien looking for him, so we 
took him of? and hid him. They have 
moved, hence I think he is safe. I 
took him down with fifty-four canteens 
for water this morning." 

Anient this mule. Lieutenant King 
says the Company held on to him till 
the "Wellington Coon" got his eyes on 
him, and then he disappeared. "The 
mule," he writes, "there was no such 
good luck in the case of the coon." 
There was a general complaint at the 
filthy condition of the entire local'ity 
wbere either Cubans or Spaniards had 
encamped. The art of properly laying 
out camps with sinks, etc., ajiparently 
had never been learned by them. 




.Vn\tliing good pertaining in a mem- 
ber of the Light Infantry, ])ast or pres- 
ent, 'is in place in this narrative, and in 
this connection it is fitting to mention 
Capt. Carl A. Wagner of the 33d Mich- 
igan, who had served his novitiate in 
the old Worcester company. He had 
'enlisted in the Infantry March 21, i8(S2. 
then, as now, in the 2d Regiment: was 
promoted Corporal Jan. 21, 1884, and 
was discharged March 21, 1885, by 
reason of expiration of term of service. 
As a Light Infantryman he made a dil- 
ligent study of rifle practice, won the 
second prize in 1883, and was on the 
company team which went to Framing- 
ham in "83 and '84. On going to Mich- 
igan he again entered the militia, 
where his devotion to rifle practice 
soon made him instructor and inspector 
in that branch nearly all of the inter- 
vening years. When the call for vol- 
untleers came in April, 1898, he was 
Second Lieutenant of his company in the 
city of Port Huron, and, w*ith his com- 
pany, went to the rendezvous camp 
April 2(\ The ^Michigan Division, Sons 
of \'eterans. U. S. A., tendered their 
services to the extent of a regiment to 
the Governor of the State, hut only two 
companies could be accepted. He was 
commissioned May 19 Captain of the 
first of these companies to be mustered 
into service. It was known as Com- 
pany L, 33d Mich. \'ol. Infantry. The 
regiment left the State May 28, and ar- 
rived at Camp Alger, \'a.. two days 
later. The 33d and 34th Michigan 
r«?giments were brigaded with the 9th 
Mass., under the command of Hriga- 
dier-general DufTield of Michigan. 
This brigade left for Cuba June 2^. On 
the first day of July, while the Second 
Jklass. Regiment was at El Caney, the 
33d Michigan was ordered to Aguado- 
res to make a demonstration against 
the enemy at that point and to engage 
him, thus preventing his going to the 
assistance of Santiago. In the engage- 
ment two men of Captain ^^'ag- 
ner's company were killed and three 
wounded 

After the surrender the Captain met 
some of his old Worcester friends in 
the Second, among them Lieutenant- 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPAXISII WAR. 



colonel Shumwa}', Avho was Captain of 
the City Cniards in 1882. His visit to 
tlie later "boys" of his old home was a 
pleasure to him as well as to those 
whom he met, every one of whom was 
proud of the record the erstwhile Wor- 
cester boy had made along with his 
comrades from the Badger State. The 
early train'ing in the Heart of the Com- 
monwealth evidently had borne excel- 
lent fruit. 

Nothing gives a truer picture of 
army life than the letters wr^itten home 
by participants. They are frank, 
outspoken recitals of just what the 
soldier sees and thinks. The fol- 



them an intimation nf what we can do 
when our Irish is up, but they never re- 
turned a shot which amounted to any- 
thing. TlTen another truce went on, and 
is still on. We are right in the city, ii. e., 
about 150 yards from their buildings, 
and we are intrenching to beat the band. 
W>e shall have a great gang for the high- 
way department when we get back. 

"This bushiess wouldn't be so bad 
were it not for the rain. We get soaked 
everv day : the climate is pretty good, 
and the scenery is pretty fair, when we 
have a chance to look at it. We are 
getting a bit more to eat now, but we 
could dispose of more : to-day. each man 




lowing from a Worcester l)oy in the 
Light Infantry nuist have given 
his mother a deal of comf(.irt, for 
it seeks to tell her only the best 
items possible. He might have un- 
folded a tale which would have 
stirred that mother's heart, but even in 
Cuba, surrounded by sickness and 
danger, he sees, apparentl)-. only the 
bright side. Our armies have e\er been 
full of just such boys : 

"150 Yards From Spanish Pickets, 
Santiago, July 13, 1898. 

"Oh, this reminds me of home, it's so 
different! — -sitting in the mud, trying to 
write, a tomato can for a desk, and ants 
crawling u]3 and down my back and face. 

"Well, we have done nothing for the 
past ten days but move around from 
place to place, and build earthworks. 
We had three days' truce last week, but 
opened up on the Spanks from our 
stronghold on Sundav afternoon. Gave 



got one small potato and lialf of an 
onion, the first fru'it that we have had. 
\\'e ha\'e had only two mails since we 
got here, and only twelve miles from 
where they arrive. What do you think 
of that ? This war is twenty }ears be- 
hind the times. 

"We have by far the most pleasant 
cami> ground of the whole trip, except 
in case the shooting begins, it will be 
prettv warm. It is the most exposed po- 
sition that we liave had. These Cubans 
are a ijoor sort of a race: don't amount 
to much. 

"What do \(iu think- of my stationery? 
Paper is worth al)i>ut a dollar a sheet 
and is awfully scarce. Did my tailor- 
ing \iesterdav. Took in the seat of my 
Ijlue jeans about eight inches and now I 
can't stoo]). I nuist have lost a pound 
or two. . . . The band is playing 
'The Star-si)angled P.anner.' That's 
our doxology. Every man uncovers. 



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125 



That's what iiis]iirc.s men ti 
deeds." 



Ijrave 



"At Santia.i^-o, July 15, 1898. 
"Dear Everybody: 

"Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah ! Have 
you heard the news? Santiago and 
20.000 troops surrendered. Just think 
of it! No more fighting, for a while 
at least. Xo doubt you are as much 
relieved as we are. Well, yesterday 
we crawled into our trenches, expect- 
ing; a long siege. We had worked hard 
and had made preparations for a pro- 
longed encampment, in a hole in the 



of tomatoes. A strong guard is posted 
all around our camp, not in fear of the 
Spaniards, but to keej) our enthusiasm 
where it can be looked after. Can't 
write any more, am too happy! Aren't 
you happy, too?" 

The formal surrender of Santiago has 
had many descriptions, but this written 
by one of the Company, Henry C. 
Greene, who was an orderly on Gen- 
eral Ludlow's staff, has never been 
in print, and is presented as an ex- 
pression of a private's notions of this 
historic event: 




liRIGHAM, IIVMES. P.EJl'NE. HaI.E. DrUI 

.\T L.VKELAND. 



ground. \\'e sat there for about four 
hours watching the rainwater crawl- 
ing up our legs, for it rained all the 
afternoon, as usual. About four 
o'clock the sun came out and we 
crawled out of our pits and looked 
around to see why the shooting had 
not begun. Just then a mighty cheer 
rang out from somewhere up the line, 
and then we began to have suspicions. 
Just then a mounted orderly bounded 
into our line and shouted that Santiago 
with 20,000 men had surrendered. Just 
imagine the scene! They wouldn't let 
us cheer, for some unaccountable rea- 
son, probably for fear the Spanks would 
get mad and change their minds. 

"Everybody was crazy last night. 
We celebrated by eating a whole can 



"Xew America, Sunday. Julv 17. 
"Dear People: 

"I have just attended the surrender 
of Santiago. I was one of about i50or 
less Americans to see the ceremony. 
Only the generals and staff with or- 
derlies saw 'wot was did.' I was one of 
the orderlies that went with General 
Ludlow. Down in the vallev, about 
half way between Santiago and the 
American forces, all this happened. 

"The American officers lined up 
on one side, major-generals in the 
front row. brigadier-generals second, 
colonels next, etc., all mounted. 
The orderlies were in the rear, but as 
there were l)ut few officers, I saw 
everything. Of course I don't know 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



what was said. Init tluTo was a cuiii- 
Ijany of Spanish infantr\' lined up, and 
they presented arms. Then Shafter and 
the Spanish commander seemed to talk 
it over a little, and there was a gen- 
eral handshaking- among the higher 
officers, and introductions. Then the 
Spanish infantry niarcliccl ti i the city, 
the officers, Spanish and .Vnicrican offi- 
cers, following. After ihoni came two 



enjoyed themselves wdth Spanish wine 
inside the Iniilding. While the hand 
was playing, a woman, smoking the 
butt of a black cigar, wrung her hands 
and shouted, 'Viva, viva.' . . . You 
should have seen the defenses around 
the city. As we came in there was 
barbed wire galore running in all di- 
rections. Rack of the wire were the 
trenches, and in front of some \vere 




regiments, the oth and the i^lh In- 
fantry, with the band. We all went to 
the city, getting in about 11.15, and the 
Hag went up above the (lovermir's 
])alace when the cathedral clock struck 
twelve. .Ml soldiers stood at 'present 
arms," and the band played 'The Star- 
si)angled Uanner.' and 'The Stars and 
.Stripes Forex-er," by Sousa. Then every 
line ga\e three cheers. W'hile we 
waited for twelve o'clock, the officers 



ditches tilled with water. The Spanish 
wear canvas shoes with leathern straps 
on the toes like some tennis shoes ; cot- 
ton coats and pants, having very nar^ 
now blue and white stripes; blue straw 
hats. Everybody, Spaniards, Cubans 
and all, seemed happy. While in the 
city, the people were generous of 
cigars, cigarettes, and all the wine the 

boys could drink. Tell Mr. that I 

have a large black cigar for him, but as 



LICllT IXFAXTRY, COMI'.WV C. 



T am afraid it niii^iit make him dizzy, I 
will give it to Tcini, the cook, and see 
what he will give me for supper. I'rom 
the camj) we can see the \essels 
ci.imino- into the harhor, and the hand 
at my left is playing 'Yale.' having just 
finished 'Home, Sweet Home.'" 

Followino- the surrender there was 
much visiting of Santiago, and a volume 
of experiences and ohservations might 
be compiled, hut few of them have any 
special bearing on the war and its con- 
sequences. The terrible destitution of 
the majorit}^ of the people was a sub- 
ject of general remark, and Cuban 
habits and customs were a never fail- 
ing source of astonishment. Naked 
children running about in search of 
food had a queer look to Yankee eyes, 
and long lines of hungry citizens wait- 
ing their turn at the public distribution 
were not a pleasant sig^ht to men 
reared in a land of plenty, but they 
themselves in these recent weeks hail 
not been unknowing to the pangs of 
hunger. 'There were few nooks and 
crannies of the quaint old Spanish city 
that tliese Massachusetts boys, willi 
all of the curiosity proverbially 
ascribed to them, did not see. 




Xo s.M.ner Iia.l the .surrender taken 
place than the men began to speculate 
on the prospects of an carlv return to 
the continent. They were not soldiers 
by trade, they preferred the necupa- 
tinns of peace, and no one could see 
why they were not sent home at once; 
forgetting that so manv thousand.s 
could not be moved immediatelv. Ma- 
laria was getting in its deadlv" work, 
the commissariat had never been any 
too good, and the conveniences of camp 
life were of a wholly negative charac- 
ter. Hungry and d'iscontented, there 
w^ere long letters of complaints sent to 
friends at home, where there was a 
kindred sentiment that the govern- 
ment shouhl exert itself to put an end 
to the prolonged suffering in Cuba. 
The Rev. L. M. Powers, a Somerville 
clergyman, wrote as follows of his ob- 
servations in and about the lately be- 
leaguered city: "1 arrived in Santiago 
the day after the surrender. It is diffi- 
cult for a .\'e\v Englander to imagine 
the indescribable filth of that city and 
its inhabitants. :\ly first effort was to 
get to the 2(1 M'assachusetts vohui- 
teer.s. Fortunately for me. but un- 
fortunately for them, their camp was 
the one nearest the city, about a mile 
and a half from the city limits. In trv- 
ing to rind them 1 got lost in the tlense 
undergrowth, and wandered about ior 
three hours in the Cuban mid-davsun. 
which melts, wilts, boils your blood, 
and leaves you with ([uivering muscles, 
unwilling to act. The appearance of 
ilie 2d ^[assachusetts was a shocking 
revelation. Men and officers had beeii 
for thirty days without a change of 
clothing, without tents, and without 
blankets. Most of the time they had 
had (.nly hard liread and bacon to eat. 
and only a tomato can to cook in. 
.Nearly all of them had lost from twenty 
to thirty pounds in weight. The con- 
dition of the sick was what stirred me 
most. Nearly 200 were on the sick list, 
those imable to sit up lying on the 
ground without ade(iuate care. Of the 
doctors one was a\va\- at the division 
hospital, one (Dr. Hitchcock) was 
very sick, and the other was without 
medicine and apparently discouraged 
beyond hope. The sick had no food 



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WORCESTER 1\ THE SPANISH WAR. 



different from the well. 1 went hack 
ti) the city, hired a donke}-, s;ot a has; 
of meal from the Red Cross jjeople and 
whatever else they could spare, 
bought about twenty dollars' worth of 
jellies, wines and delicacies myself, 
and took them out to camp." 

This clerg-ynian was a veritable good 
Samaritan, and his well-expressed 
opinions of the regiment each and 
every one fully reciprocated. Towards 
the end of the month, owing to im- 
proved rations and the buoyant ([uali- 
ties of hope, the conditions of the In- 
fantr}- were possibly somewhat im- 
jiroved ; at any rate Lieutenant King 
writes to this effect on the J<jth of July, 



of cocoa, condensed milk and breakfast 
food on board the Knickerbocker, and, 
as soon as he could get it from the Ijoat, 
he used it in helping out the sick, and 
it was of great service. There was 
also a private medicine kit with which 
the Company had l)een provided. This 
cuitfit was largely the result of the 
thoughtfulness of Lieut. W. F. Gil- 
man, and it was carried upon the field 
strapped upon the back of one of the 
men. Lieutenant King had no doubt 
that this was the means of saving the 
lives of a number of men. 

( )ur Lieutenant also states he was 
the tirst line officer to enter Santiago, 
ij-oino- thence aboard the Knickerl)ocker 




stating that the list of the sick is less- 
ening and the men are improving. Only 
three men were then in the hospital, 
and one of them was expected out that 
very afternoon. "Sergeant Barton 
helped us wonderfully yesterday by 
going and interviewing his aunt, Clara 
liarton, and returning with malted 
milk, oats and condensed milk enough 
to feed our sickest men for a week or 
more." (The Lieutenant was in error 
as to the degree of kinship between 
the Sergeant and the great philanthro- 
pist.) The officer had a private stock 



and thus securing a number of things 
which contributed to the comfort of his 
men, and he detalils somewhat the items 
of rations already referred to in the 
diaries of his enlisted followers. 

( )n this same date a private, writing 
home, says : "You remember, perhaps, 
how I wrote last winter to a number of 
places for a sunnner job. I got it and 
T don't seem to be able to shake 'it." 
Describing a sick comrade he says: "I 
helped liim down to the brook and 
washed him to-day. I thought I never 
should get him back to camp, he was so 



LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



129 



weak. It is awful to sec men waste 
away as tlie men are liere — mere skin 
and bones, and not strength enough to 
walk alone. I shall go on guard to- 
night, and though a detail of only nine 
men is posted, it is difficult to find nine 
in the regiment strong enough to carry 
a gun. We expect to be paid off soon. 
;ils(> to get some new clothes. This 
will he a ('lodsend, as our clothes are 
inostK- filthy rags." 

b'riends at h<ime will never know 
how much their letters did towards 



o\er to the regimental headquarters, 
about loo yards, where 1 was seated 
under a tree, and when lie reached me 
he fell over dazed and talkeil wildly for 
a while, but he came to himself .soon. 
. . . . So niany give up when they 
go to the hospital, just lose heart and 
give up. Wood is so scarce and the 
water so far to fetch. 1 ])refer eating 
only once a da\- about half a cup of 
boiled rice, which 1 have to buy, as the 
go\ernment does not supply it. In lieu 
of better means some of the men are 




GT. George H. Hi 



keeping their boys alive during those 
tedious days of waiting in fever-haunted 
Cuba. No matter when the mail- 
pouches came the}- were opened at 
once and their contents read ere any- 
thing else was done, and hope, blessed, 
eternal hope, kept the bodies going till 
relief came at last. Says one writer. 
"We go to bed at dark and get up as 
soon as it is light. All of our cooking 
must be done before seven o'clock, for 
it is so hot from that time till it rains 
about noon, that the men cannot stand 
the sun ; the humid heat here is so dif- 
ferent from the dry heat of the States. 
One of the bovs walked from his tent 



carr^'ing water in bamboo lubes about 
six feet long. wlK'uct' they have 
punched all the jiith except from the 
last joint. Thex- do very well." 

" It is now 5.30 : we have had roll-call, 
and it is cool, so I will write a little. 
The guinea hens are cackling over in 
the woods. .\11 around us. in the dif- 
ferent camps. I can hear the reveille 
turning out the men for another long 
dav. The sun is just rising over the 
hill, and I sup])ose it will be a scorch- 
er." The foregoing was for August 10, 
and for the next day or tw'o the same 
scribe may as well tell the story, for he 
was ever taking notes : 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



••Rert Kincaid was going to the hos- 
])ital t(i help to-night, but he was sud- 
denly taken with a chill, so I am going 
to take his place. It is so hard to find 
a well man to do any duty now. I had 
a thousand times rather feel the way I 
do than to be so sick that I must go to 
the hospital and lie on the ground, for 
the hospital is only a shed with a dirt 

floor Last night and to-day 

1 have been working at the hospital 
You know wdiat a big, strong fellow 
Harry Wentworth was ; well, he is all 
wasted away, and it is a question of 
onlv a few (lays as to how long he will 
live, \\hen we were paid ofif. Lieuten- 
ant King took his money and sent it to 
him bv me, but he seemed to know his 
condition, for he said, 'What can I do 
with this? Take it back to Lieutenant 
and tell him U> keep it for me." 

".About three o'clock this afternoon 
a man came into the hospital dressed 
in citizen's clothes, and asked if this 
was brigade hospital. We told him it 
was the regimental hospital. Then he 
wanted to know where C Company of 
the 2d Massachusetts was. Fred. May- 
nard was the first to recognize him, 
and said, 'Lsn't this :\Ir. Bartlett?' Sure 
enough, he was Lyman I'.artlett's 
father 1 t.ild him 1 would go to the 
regiment with him. It was not long 
before Lyman and his father were 
hugging and kissing each other. 

•■theboys said that we were to start 
for home to-morrow, and only the ones 
win I \vere strong enough to walk over 
to the regimental headciuarters could 
go, so every man who could stand alone 
was readv to go over and i)ass in front 
of the sui-geon. 1 helped C.eorge Steli- 
bins half way over and then he said he 
could go alone the rest of the way. The 
news of going home and of seeing the 
meeting of L\ man and his father broke 
me all up. and 1 have been crying for 
joy. Wlu-n 1 got back to the hospital 
an'<l told ('.ilnian and Maynard that we 
were going home to-morrow, although 
they iiad been sick, they got up and 
walked 300 yard- to the Company. Air. 
r.artlell has C(jnie down with some 
food for us, l)Ut now we won't need it." 



Homeward Bound. 

Sluggish indeed must be the blood 
that does not quicken at the thought of 
going home. This it was that saved 
the lives of many of the Infantry boys. 
The sea air, inspiring as it was, did no 
more for these fever-stricken men than 
the certainty that at the voyage's end 
there were home and mother. Let the 
boys themselves, in their own words, 
continue the narrative: 

"On a cattle steamer, the Mobile, 
now and we have started for home. It 
hardlv seems true, more like a dream. 
The morning of the 12th of August was 
full of excitement, for we were to go 
home, but not all of us, for some of the 
fellows were yellow-fever suspects. 
.Vrthur Wintersgill was one of them. I 
was so sorry for him ; seems to me if I 
had been kept on the Island after the 
Company left, I should have given up. 
Before we left the camp we were or- 
dered to destroy all the clothing, tents, 
haversacks and ammunition in our 
possession. So the trenches that we 
dug to save us from the Spanish bullets 
we used to bury our old clothes in. The 
most of our men were l:irought to the 
boat in old army wagons, though the 
distance was not great, the men being 
so weak. No very sick men were sup- 
posed to go on board. The whole bri- 
gade of three regiments is on board." 
Camp was broken at about 2 p.m. on 
August 1 2th, and a small part of the 
Companv marched to the landing in 
Santiago' Harbor. Xo quarters were 
assigned that night : there was a heavy 
rain, making everybody miserable. On 
the 13th the Company was located be- 
tween decks in the fore part of the ves- 
sel with none too much room, the men 
l.eing taken out to the transport in 
lighters. The distilled water furnished 
is'^ used so rapidlv that it hardly has 
time to get co.d. At first ice-water was 
liad bv Uie men, but the results were 
such as to warrant its interdict. On 
the 14th came the death of Sergeant 
liarrv \\entw<irth, and his body was 
comn'iitted to the deep, a sorry ending 
to a life that had promised so much. 

( )tlier men are ill and in the hospital : 
some are out of their heads, and their 



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131 



performances would Ix- funny wort- 
they n(it so sad. At nine ii.ni. nt 
the 1 8th, the Mol:)ile arrived off Alon- 
tauk and anchored. Pcissibly some of 
the Company had heard of this east- 
ernmost extremity of Long Island 
before this trip was undertaken, but 
not many. Their knowdedge of ge- 
ography was increasing at a rapid rate. 
Within an hour of her dropping anchor 
friends from home were trx'ing their 
best ti.i get into communication with 
the _'d Regiment, a special schooner 
ha\ing made the trip from shore, and 
the editor of the AX'orcester Gazette 
was conversing with Halleck Bartlett, 
the devoted citizen who had come back 
with his son and the latter"s Company. 
The editor also hailed Lieut. -colonel 
Shumway and Major Fairbanks, but a 
long interview was prevented by the 
arrival of a government gunboat, which 
ordered the smaller craft awav, the lat- 




ter having evaded the quarantine re- 
^trietilMl^^ imder the guise of a fishing- 
boat. Still the meeting was sufficient 
to warrant many an inspiriting message 
to the home cit_\- of the Worcester bovs. 

After the landing, the morning of the 
loth, came detention camp, about one 
mile away, lest these returning lads 
sh()\ild bring and spread contagion, and 
tiiere thev were held till the morning 
of the 22d. Only nine Company C men 
cnuld make this distance afoot. Mean- 
while, the patriotic efforts of Worces- 
ter people to alleviate the pain and 
suff'ering of their soldier boys were 
bearing fruit. Though only a small 
part of the generous contributions 
could be transferred to the Mobile 
befi:)re her departure from Santiago, the 
remainder was not lost, for it was 
passed on to the members of the 9th, 
which did not come away so soon, and 
in the 9th were the Emmet Guards, 
another company of \\'orcester boys. 

The new location of the regiment was 
very cold compared with the climate of 
Cuba, and many took colds, wdiich long- 
served to remind them of their arrival 
in "rite States." Khaki uniforms, where 
possible, gave place to good old Union 
i)lue. Even before the landing Sergeant 
Hill, who had been left behind in Flor- 
ida, made his appearance, and soon 
afterwards Captain .Allen, who in his 
home had rallied from the rheiunatism 
which had incapacitated him after El 
(.'aney, reported also, both men in such 
plusical condition that they seemed to 
be veritable giants to their debilitated 
comrades. Lieutenant King was coni- 
pleicl_\' used up, and the command of 
the Company had devolved on Sergeant 
Longley till he, too, had to give u|), 
and the landing was eft'ected under the 
direction of .Sergeant Fletcher. 

The Worcester friends of the Com- 
|)anv were not long in ptitting in an 
a]>pearance. and just as soon as they 
were permitted to enter the camp the 
bovs were grasping the hands of Cap- 
tain Rider. Lieutenants Clark and Gil- 
man. A. A. Rheutan. Julius Zaeder, 
and others who were anxious to do all 
in their power to add to the comfort 
(if the men. 



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WOKCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



Savs onu oi tlu- hai>i)y Sdldicrs: 
"Surely the pe(:i])k- liavc iidt fiir,i;utten 
us, since we ha\'e all we want to eat. 
Food comes to the camp in cartloads, 
and every man has a cu]) of milk each 
day. To-day, when some of the boys 
were sitting in front of their tents, (len- 
eral Miles and Secretary Alger passed 
through the street. All of the men 
arose to their feet and came to atten- 
tion as they went along, liut Gage was 
so weak he fell hack again. Secretary 
Alger asked if many were in that con- 
dition, and 1 think it means that we are 
to leave here soon." 



committee, and went to work. They 
were Capt. 1'. L. Rider. Lieut. W. F. 
(iilman, Julius C. Zaeder and A. A. 
I-iheutan. The introduction of the sub- 
ject to the ])ublic was in the shape of a 
local item' in the Gazette of August 22d. 
On the 23d the work of receiving con- 
tributions began, and there were busy 
times in Captain Kider"s store for a 
while, since the pro])osition had struck 
a responsive chord. An Elm Street 
ladv was the first contributor, and she 
called to leave ten dollars. The largest 
gift was one of $100 from James Logan. 
There were two of fift^• dollars each. 




W 



■M Hkli'S TMI-: Riv 



While Worcester and tlie ])uhlic gen- 
erallv were taking care cif the Vdlun- 
teiT, no one ap]jeared to remem1>.er th;' 
regular army soldier, though upon him 
had come the brunt of the ser\ice. He 
was from everywhere, and no one com- 
numity felt that any one regiment was 
its particular protege. Hence, when in 
the presence of several reporters. Gene- 
ral Young said to e.\-Lieut.( iiiw Haile, 
"In all this generous giving no one has 
anything for the regular, though he 
went througli the hardest of the strife," 
il uccurred to certain Worcester penple 
that \ery likely their city might take an 
interest in helping the regulars. The_\- 
c;inu- hunie. cimstituted themselves a 



1)ut the ciintributions came in smaller 
sums generally. H. D. Perky, in addi- 
tion to a generous amount in cash, con- 
tributed a large (piantity of the prod- 
ucts of his factory, and besides sent 
down an expert cook to aid in sharp- 
ening the l.)oys" appetites. 

In all there was raised the sum of 
$1207.96. The purchases were made at 
once, necessities and luxuries expressed 
in a s]iecial car to New London, and on 
the 25th of August the steamer Man- 
hansett, loaded with Worcester's giv- 
ing, was seeking the privilege of un- 
loading at ;\lontauk. .\s usual, there 
intervened the obstacle of red tape, 
h'ortunately, the committee ha<l forti- 
fied thenisehes with the i)resence of 
.Major E. T. RayuKind and Senator 



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133 



Geo. F. Hoar, the former an old soldier 
of the Rebellion and used to military 
delays; the latter one of the most influ- 
ential men in the nation. .V combina- 
tion was thus made that the obstruc- 
tionists found exceedingly hard to beat. 
A carriage was borrowed from a Mrs. 
Trumbull of the Xew York \^olunteer 
Aid Association, and then ensued a wild 
chase after the officers in authority who 
could and would break through the cor- 
don of martinets who, though inwardly 
desiring the offering, could see no otifi- 
cial way of letting it in. At last General 
^\'heele^, wdio was in command, was 
found at lunch, and with him the man 
of all others most needed at the mo- 
ment, the Secretary of War. R. .V. .\1- 



(jbtain from the dock authorities what 
had been denied him before. He wanted 
five wagons, and he got them, one for 
each regular urganization. \ er\' little 
time was iiccui)ied in li)ading tlu-m, 
and then with Julius Zaeder, .\. .\. 
Rheutan, Lieutenant Gilman, Lieuten- 
ant C. F. Bigelow and George Hub- 
bard as drivers, the cavalcade set forth, 
carrying comfort to himdreds of suf- 
fering men. Grateful letters from 
officers in these regiments tell how 
thoroughly appreciated were the ef- 
forts of Worcester in their belialf. 

The gentlemen directly concerned 
and the generous givers never did a 
better act than when they thus be- 
friended the ho\s whose interests, in 










ger. The latter, as soon as he ascer- 
tained the wishes of the Worcester 
gentlemen, wrote upon two visiting 
cards (see cut above), and they were 
the "open sesame" admitting the sup- 
plies which did so much to tone up the 
regular soldiers, whose welfare had 
been carelessly neglected. 

At the same time General Wheeler 
telephoned a connnand to admit, while 
Captain Rider, thoroughly co\ered 
with Long Island mud. raced back with 
his precious order. He couUi now 



the general dexotion to particular reg- 
iments, had been overlooked. .Vll of 
the monev contributed was expended 
as directed, save $148.56. which, at 
first, was turned over to the fund for 
bringing back the Iiodies of those who 
had died in Cuba, but when the nation 
took hold of that matter, the residue 
was given to the local \'olunteer .Aid 
.\ssociation. 



at 



The stay of the 2d Regiment 
Montauk was brief, yet to many an 
anxious heart it was all too long, for 



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135 



few could fors:et tliat home was onlv a 
few hours" ride away, and the people 
there were just as desirous of receiving 
as the soldiers were of going. There 
were two or three days of rumors and 
expectations, and then on the 27th the 
departure for New London actually 
came. The round dozen of Company C 
men who marched down to the landing 
to go aboard the Block Island did not 
constitute an)- part of the triumphal 
procession, yet every heart was beating 
more raoidly at the thought of "Home, 
-Sweet Home." The ride across Long 
Island Sound is a brief one, and at 11 
a.m., amid steamer whistles and the 
cheers of thousands of onlookers, the 
dock is reached and another stage on 
the homeward route is passed. There 
are Worcester friends among the peo- 
ple, and Colonel Wellington and Alayor 
Dodge are conspicuous in the throng. 
Here, too, is ex-Lieutenant Gov. Haile 
from Springfield, who has run down 
from his summer home at ^^'atch Hill 
just to take the hands of the soldiers. 

There was to be no prolonged stay in 
the Connecticut city, and soon, com- 
fortably placed on a north-bound train, 
the 2(\ was speeding toward the I'>ay 
.State. Had every man been able to 
eat all that was provided for him, 
there had been displays of gastronomic 
powers unequaled before. Every one 
had the idea that all the boys were 
hungry, a notion not far from the truth, 
and acted accordingly. However, there 
is an end to all things, and even a 
famine has its limits. By the combined 
efforts of Connecticut and Massachu- 
setts, our boys reached their respective 
cities and towns in a fairly well-filled 
condition. ISefore reaching Palmer, 
Governor W'olcott and others were 
greeting the returning brave, and at 
the latter place the comrades of four 
months' campaigning separated, only 
the \\'orcester and Gardner companies 
continuing tn the east. 

It is four o'clock in the afternoon 
when the goal of their hearts" desire is 
reached, and the great Union Depot 
swallows up the special train. Appar- 
ently ever}- one in the city who had the 
least affiliation with the soldiers was in 



the station, or as near it as he could get. 
They were there to receive their boys 
with open arms and with the loudest 
acclaim, but the sight of the homeward- 
boimd lads, so worn and wasted, so wan 
and feeble, killed the shouts ere they 
were uttered, but the bovs got greet- 
ings they most desired, those from the 
hands and hearts of lo\-ed ones who had 
not ceased to lament their aljsence a 
single day of all the Cuban separation. 

The band was there, and the day was 
all that the most exacting couhl ask, 
and, either afoot or in carriages, the 
soldiers made their way to the .\rmory. 
Through streets thronged to their ut- 
termost, under banners proudlv wav- 
ing, "Johnny came marching home 
again :"" but the ranks were thin, and 
the lads in hospital or, worse than that, 
in their gra\"es, were not forgotten. 
There were some who \-iewed the re- 
turn through eyes that were dim with 
tears for the soldier who was sleeping 
his dreamless, silent sleep in a far-away 
island. Just thirty-one men of C Com- 
pany came home that day. The others 
were in hospital in .America or Cuba, or 
for some other reason had been left 
behind. Those who had a part in this 
da3-"s honors were Cajitain F. L. .Allen. 
Sergeants Hill, Fletcher and Barton, 
Corporals Colburn and Eldridge, ^lusi- 
cian A. F. AVheeler, .Artificer E. .\. 
Stearns, \\'agoner F. B. Maynard, Cook 
.-V. G. Biersdorf, and Privates Bartlett, 
Bradley, Briggs, \\'. H. Butler, Clark- 
son, Grossman, Dean, Dennis, Drurv, 
Farrow, Flynn, Gage, E. J. Martin, 
Merrifield, Pope, Prince, Rix, Roberts, 
Taylor, Tucker and Zaeder. 

Private Roberts was taken to the 
hospital directly from the station, 
dying one week later. Bradley and 
Martin took their last march together, 
maintaining to the end the reputation 
of the '"Bradley-Martin"' combination. 

The leave-takings are brief at the 
.\rmory. and then come the home 
scenes, with which the public has no 
part ; in many cases weeks of prolonged 
illness, covering much of the furlough 
of si-xty days, at whose end, Xovember 
3d, there was a final gathering in 
Springfield, and discharges were 



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WORCESTER IN THE STAXISII WAR. 



granted which niorged the si ililier again 
into the citizen. Whether for l)etter or 
worse, the campaign was eniled and the 



Light Infantry xdhniteer of i8i)S 
lapsed into the ranks of those who pur- 
sued the routine of everv-dav hving. 



THh: DEAD IN COMPANY C. 



Fred liaMvvin Taft, a recruit who 
came into the Company for the war, 
was the first to go, dying in Cuba, July 
14. Having been in the regular army 
and a sergeant, his comrades thought 
him disease and bullet-proof, but the 
Cuban situation over-ruled all calcula- 
tions. He was born in Charlton 
twenty-five years before, was married, 
and was in the Fire Department when 
he enlisted. His boily. on its return 
from Cuba, \va> buried in Charlton. 
He died with his head on Knibbs' knee. 

James Woodl:)ury Wheeler died .\ug. 
2(1 in Cuba. He was thirty-two years 
old, a native of Weymouth, and had 
been in the Company in earlier years. 
He was in the insurance business, was 
married, ami. standing nearly six feet 
in height, he was a good soldier and 
his comrades say, "a faultless man." 
His body rests in Lynn. 

Silas L Mayo died Aug. 7 in L'id)a. 
Private Mayo had been in the L'onipany 
about four years. I'.y occupation he 
was a paper-hanger, and befori- going 
to the front had been in the employ of 
E. G. Higgins Co. His twenty-si.xth 
birthday was spent. July 8th, in front 
of Santiago. He left many and dear 
W'orcester affiliations. .\ cmnrade af- 
firms that Mayo had a ]ireniouition of 
his approaching end, for, the day be- 
fore his death, he repeatedly said: "1 
am going home to-morrow." His re- 
mains were carried to I'airfield, Me., 
for interment. 

.\rthur Dawson .Stewart died .\ug. 
loth in (.'id)a. .\ boy of nineteen years, 
he was a native of Crand I 're. kings 
(.'ounty, \'o\'a Scotia, and when he en- 
listed was a machinist in llie employ of 
Wvman iS: ( iordon. .Ml that was mor- 
tal of him was borne to Hortons\ille. 
X. S.. for burial. Stewart offered 
prayer over the grave of Taft. 

Harold iJenning Wentworth, ser- 
geant, died and was buried at sea, Aug. 



14th. He was a Worcester boy, 
twenty-eight years old, whose father 
was for many years the janitor of 
Mechanics Hall. As a high school 
pu])il, and as a member of the gymna- 
sium classes of the Y. M. C. A., young 
Wentworth had been conspicuous for 
his physical vigor, and that he, the best 
all-round man of the Company, should 
fade so readily was not only a great 
grief, but a surprise as well. His oc- 
cupation had been athletics, having 
held tile jjosition oi jjhysical director 
in the Y. M. C. A. of Worcester and 
in Holv Cross College. He left a 
widow and one brother. 

Robert Henry Dowse, corporal, died 
at Montauk Point, August 26th. He 
was born in Sherborn, but had lived 
much of his life in Worcester. His 
trade was that of a wood-carver. His 
])arents being engaged in fruit-grow- 
ing in California, the son had repeat- 
eill\- been across the continent to visit 
them. His thirtieth birthday was Aug. 
J4th. just two days before his death. 
His illness beginning in Cuba, he had 
failed to ralh' on reaching home shores. 
.Sherborn is also his burial-place. 

William Daxid Roberts died in Wor- 
cester September 3d. He had returned 
with his fellows, but the fever was 
u]ion him and he did not long survive 
the sight of home, having been taken 
in a carriage irom the station to the 
hos|)ital. He was only nineteen years 
old. being one of the recruits of May 
3d. His birthidace was Staffordville, 
Conn., but he had l)een in Worcester a 
couple of \ears. \'oung as he was he 
hail l)een two years married, and be- 
sides his widow left a mother and 
other relati\-es. When enlisted, he was 
employed in Darling's mill in Cherry 
\'alle\ , where he is buried. 

Joseph Clarence King died at divi- 
sion hospital, Santiago, Cuba, Sept. 5. 
Born in Leicester, he was eighteen 



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138 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



years oUl at enlistment, was a iirinter 
l)y trade, and nnniarried. He was one 
of tlie l)(ivs wliom necessity forced to 
stay in Cuba. His waking eyes never 
sa\\- home again. 1)ut his l)odv rests in 
his I lid li(ime tdwn. 

First Lieut. .Vrthur C. King <lieil in 
Worcester June 30. kjoi. Though sur- 
viving the war nearlv three vears, the 
death of Lieutenant King was directlv 
traceable to the hardships of the cam- 
paign, tlirdugh which he l^nre himself 
in a must snldierl)- manner. \\"ith de- 
lightful unanimity, his men speak well 
of his kindness of heart and his evident 
intention to do all in his power for the 
gdiid (if liis men. He wore himself out 
in their behalf. Lieutenant King was 
a nati\e rif Wcircester, thirt\--four vears 
of age. and had l)een a member of the 
Light Infantry fur ten years. He had 
long been cimnected with the wall- 
paper business, and his last engage- 
ment was with a Philadelphia house, 
where he was when seized with his 
fatal illness. His funeral was held on 
the third anniversary of his taking 
command of the Company, when Ca])- 
tain Allen was obliged to leave. He 
was interested in the effort to retain 
the meniorie> nf the war. and was the 
President of the Cuban War W-terans. 
He was marrie<l. and in additidu tn a 
widciw with two children, he left a 
nidther and two brothers. He is 
buried in Hope Cemeter}-. 

Royal H. P'itts died in the Massachu- 
setts General Hospital, Boston, June 3, 
i8gg. He was one of the May recruits, 
went through the campaign, suffered 
from the fever with all his comrades, 
but apparently did not so thoroughly 
reco\er. At the .Memorial Day exer- 
cises in Lynn he had been recjuested 
l:)y the C<impan_\- td place a wre.-ith dn 
the grave nf Wheeler; this he (li<l. Init 
in sd dding became dverheated, caught 
a Ne\er(.' Cdld and died. He was much 
interested in tlu- Legiim of S])anish 
\\ ar \ eterans. and was its .Adjutant- 



general. His grave is in Hope Cem- 
etery. 

Eugene F. Drury die<l in the Citv 
Hospital of ^^'orcester, Xo\-. i, igo2. 
He was one of the May recruits of the 
Company, having been added to the list 
on the 9th. He was born in that part 
of r_eicester known as Cherrv \"allev, 
but much of his time had Ijeen spent in 
^^'drcester, where he had attended the 
public schools, and his drill in the St. 
John's Cadets had given him a military 
taste. His vocation was that of a 
clothing salesman. As one of the Com- 
pany has said, he was a typical soldier, 
and when the Infantry had returned 
anil he had recovered from the illness 
that every one had, sooner or later, he 
enlisted in the regulars Jan. 9, "99, and 
was assigned ti:i the gth I'. S. Infantry, 
then at Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. On 
the 24th of March following, the regi- 
ment left for the Philippines, and he 
partici]iated in all the campaigning of 
his three years' term. He was at 
Cuadaldupe Ridge. Zapote River, San 
I'ernanilo. .'santa Rita, Tarlac, and 
many others in the islands, and then 
went with the i;th td China and saw all 
that the regiment did, except Tien 
Tsin. his battalion being slow in leav- 
ing the boat. He was one of those 
wild entered the sacred city. ( )n get- 
ting back to .Manila he was detailed as 
orderly and telegraph clerk to General 
McArthur, and later to General Chaf- 
fee. This wcirk he gave up, that he 
might go with his Company to Saniar 
Island, for if there was active warfare 
anywhere Drury wanted to have a 
hand in it. He was discharged Jan. 9, 
1902, and came back to Worcester, but 
disease was already upon him, and 
though for a time he resumed his old 
calling, it was ndt fur long, as his ner- 
vmis disdnler, neuritis, incapacitated 
him for work. He was burieil from 
the Catholic Church df Leicester, in St. 
Joseph's Cemetery, le.'iving parents, 
lirdthers. a wiildw ;nid twd chililren. 



PLRS( ).\ALS. 



.Ml cif the Worcester men in the Sec- 
ond had reason to be jiroud of the 
cit}'s representation among the field 



officers of the regiment. Lieut. -colonel 
E. R. Shumway, a former Captain of 
Company A, and a veteran of the 



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139 




140 



WORCESTER IX THE SPAXlSi! WAR. 



War of thf Rchellion, iiierited ami 
always received the \-erv hisHest 
regard of all the soldiers. ' They felt 
that he was e\-er one of them aii(i with 
them. 

Major H. ]'.. I'^airbaiiks was familiar 
with all the history of the Ci>mpanv. for 
he had long been one of its captains. 
Devoted to the militia from his verv 
boyhood, there was no wonder that in 
every position he proved a perfect fit. 
His presence on the firing line, during 
the long and tedious marches, in the 
fever-stricken camp, was ever re- 
sourceful and a imwer to encourage 
and inspirit. Not alone Company C, 
but all the companies owe much ti> 
their young and energetic Major. 

Second Lieut. Herbert H. Warren. — 
It was the fortune nr misfortune of 
Lieutenant Warren t<> be detached 
from his Company e\'en before leaving 
r'lorida, lience all of his Cuban expe- 
rience was apart from the Light Infan- 
try. All that he saw of his old friends 
was when he casually met some mem- 
ber, or in the pursuit of dutv. lie passecl 
the regiment. ( )n reaching I'lorida he 
was ])ro>trateil with ilhicNS. from 
which he rallied slowly, so slowlv thai 
it was deemed inijirobable that he 
wiiuld be able t. . accompany the .Sec- 
ond on its departure. .\t this juncture. 
June 5th. there came an order for the 
detaching of se\eral c< immissioneil 
officers tor duty at the (li\ision head- 
quarters till regulars cnuld l)e fnun.l 
to take their places, but a> the sup],lv 
of regulars was ne\-er eipial to the de- 
mand, the detail became permanent. 
-Also, as the health of the Lieutenant 
improved he wa^ able t(j go alnng with 
the e.\|)edition. 

While lacking thus the spirit nf fel- 
lowship which cnnies from tenting on 
the s.amc camp-gnmnd. he did ha\e a 
far wider experience of men and e\-ents 
than his associate officers who were 
with tJK'ir respective companies. All 
the distinguislied officers whose names 
are indelildy impresseil uptm the pages 
devoted t(j the .Spanish War were fre- 
quently met, ami he is .able Id ^ive an 
estimate of their appe.anince and char- 



acteristics from Shafter. Wdieeler and 
Lawton downward. 

It g«:)es without saying that all of the 
duties pertaining to his position were 
faithfully performed, ami that he him- 
self fotuid in their performance a de- 
gree of exhilaration that all staff offi- 
cers recall with ])leasure. As a mem- 
ber of (leneral Lawton's military fam- 
ily he was near enough to that gal- 
lant soldier to appreciate his magnifi- 
cent manhood, and later to lament his 
untimely death in the far-away Philip- 
pines. Day and night, in the saddle 
ancl afoot, he carried messages and 
orders, saw t<j the placing of regiments 
and companies, was present at the at- 
tack on El Caney, helped to encircle 
Santiago, saw the Spanish flag come 
down and the .\merican go up; then 
he. too. yieldeil to the insidious fever, 
and July 30th was furloughed home to 
his own father's house, whence he did 
not emerge till well into September, 
though he was out in time to do a deal 
of work in making ready the muster- 
out papers of his C'ompany, and with 
his fellows to receive the S|)ringfield 
z'alc in October. 

Not alone Lieutenant Warren, but 
his friends as well, have a deal of pleas- 
ure and pride in the fact that his con- 
duct before b'l Caney was such that by 
(ieneral Lawton h_- was reconnnended 
for the brevet rank of captain. 

iM'ed 1'. L^ean. — The experience of 
Private Dean, after the war, in helping 
to return to .\merica the bodies of the 
soldiers dying in foreign lands, entitles 
him to more than passing mention. In 
CMinpany with Sergeant I'.arton. he had 
found and located the grave of Lieu- 
tenant I'enchley, after the San Juan 
Mill engagement, and, naturallv, when 
the return nf that bra\'e young officer's 
body to his nati\e land was contem- 
plated, attention was turne<l to Dean 
as the man to direct the effort. Ac- 
cor<lingly he was mustered out (let, 
.?d, i8i>S, by s])ecial order of the War 
Department. However, he had not 
waited fur the arri\al of the order, hut 
accompanied by Cndertaker I'raidv 
.Sessions, he had sailed for I'orto Rico, 
on the tirst day of the m.inth. It should 
be stated th.at i-,nder C.ilnnel Clark's 



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141 




(lirecticjii. I 'rivatt- Dean hail located and 
marked every 2d Regiment i^^rave in 
Cnl)a. The identification of the t,'-rav;' 
by means of the wire-woven horseshoe 
which Dean and Barton had placed at 
tlie foot of the improvised cross erected 
above the remains of the Lieutenant, 
was a happy outcome of the thou.c;ht- 
fulness which prompted tlie act. 'I'he 
body of Lieutenant Benchley came 
back to Worcester in XovemlK-r. and 
after the funeral in the First Univer- 
salist Church, it was buried in tlie 
National Cemetery at West Point. 
The horseshoe with its barlied wire ac- 
companiment is one of the precious 
relics in the Light Infantry's collection. 
The return of all American bodies 
buried abroad became a necessitv, and 
many communities took up the matter 
in behalf of themselves. Worcester 
being the first to act. Each regimental 
commander had the privilege of rec- 
ommending a man from his command 
to accompany the government burial 
corps. Colonel Clark of the 2d Mas- 
sachusetts, in the spring of 1899. named 
Private Dean, and expenses were to be 
borne by the cit\- of Worcester, Mr. 
Dean not caring to join the corps at 
that time. The first landing was in 



Porto Rico, where it was found that all 
ilie stenciling appliances for the proper 
labelling of the caskets were at the 
bottom of the vessel's hold, with a large 
cargo of matter above the same. Hap- 
pily at this moment the deftness of 
Dean's hands became known, and his 
use of the brush rendered it unneces- 
sary to unload the entire cargo to get 
at the hidden mechanism. .So well did 
he do his work that on the wav to 
Cuba it was proposed to him that he 
join the corps and continue the work 
begun in Porto Rico and thus be on the 
pay-roll of the government. To this he 
consented, and before he returned to 
Worcester he had lettered the name, 
rank, company and regiment upon the 
receptacles of no less than 1278 poor 
fellows wdio had perished afar from 
their homes. Also he made and turned 
into the government plans of all the 
places whence the bodies had been 
taken. 

The eNjiertness of our private had 
l)ecome so well understood that in the 
fall of 1899. he was ofifered further em- 
pIo_\-mcnt in the same line in the Phil- 
ippines. He received his ai)pointment 




142 



WORCESTER I.\ THE SPAMSII WAR. 



from the Ouartermaster-general, and 
started on wliat proved to be an ah- 
sence of nine months. His second trip, 
under the same auspices and for the 
same purpose, was made in 1900. start- 
ing in October and covering about the 
same interval as his first. Again he 
was called upon in 1902, leaving Sep- 
tember 14th, and was gone fifteen 
months, getting back just in time for a 
Thanksgiving tlinner. 1003. During 
these three expeditidus he sailed en- 
tirely aniund the I'liilippine .\rchipel- 
ago and went in and out among the 
islands themseUes till the indicated 
lines of his tra\el lnok \-erv much like 



In i8()i; there seemed to be a chance 
for Air. Dean to secure a permanent 
situation in the Red Cross service, a 
position for which he was specially 
fitted, but it was filled before his rec- 
ommendations could be filed, but the 
following letter from Lieutenant King 
of Company C is held by him as a 
precious souvenir (if the regard in which 
his commanding officer held him : 



I feel that I owe you. in person, a great 
debt of gratitude for the whole-souled, self- 
denying manner in which you devoted your- 
self to your sick comrades. I have hoped 
for an opportunity to express publicly the 




I.IEUTEXAXT IIKXCHI.EV 



(IT. AX CRAVE. 



a 1)azar dress pattern. M\-er_\' accessible 
liddy was disinterred and by nur skill- 
ful letterer the receptacle was directed 
for the liiiig return tri]i across the I'a- 
cific. In this wa\ . in the West Indies 
and the I 'llili|)pine^. he lettered caskets 
C(jnlaining the remains of more than 
<^oo men wlm had died away from 
their nati\e land. 

Mr. Dean recalls with pardonable 
pride the fact that lie was called to the 
]iresence of Cohinel I'atten of the 
Ouartermaster's Department, and was 
bv him thanked for the character of 
his serxice.s. including the ]dans he had 
turned in. thus making it possible t(.) 
answer all (|uestions as to the relialde- 
uess lit names and records. 



a.jpreciation I felt for your efiforts so freely 
given at that distressing time, the month 
succeeding the surrender of Santiago, when 
in tlie entire 2nd Regiment there was not a 
well man, and when those who were least 
sick had to devote themselves to the care of 
others. I recall with pleasure the fact that not 
only did you do cheerfully and willingly all that 
you were detailed to do, but that you were ever 
im the alert to render others timely assistance, 
such as the preparation of dainty dishes from 
humble materials. How well I remember the 
■ ' blanc-mange, ' ' served on a mess-tin , but cun- 
ningly tricked out with green leaves, which 
made it look like a delicacy from Delmonico's. 
that you brought me one night when I was 
far from well: and the tender care with which 
you tended the sick in hospital, bathing them 
and ministering to their comforts as a mother 
would have done, and continuing to give to 
them nut of mir limited resources as great a 
variety of mUrilinus ilishes as even so skilled a 
conk as Miu pni\eil to be, could devise. 



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143 



The many ways in which you rendered most 
vakial)le aid to the then commanding officer of 
"C" Company (myself) I shall never forget, 
and only trust that as long as you live you may 
be the recipient of as good treatment from 
those with whom you come in contact as you 
have given to your comrades in distress. Be- 



lieving that in such a wish I am wishing you 
all the good that is likely to come to any man. 
I am. 

Most sincerely vours, 

ARTHUR C. KING. 
Late I St Lieut.. '-CO).. 2nd Mass., U.S. V. 
July 8. iSyg. 



CAPT.AIX WIXSLOW S. LINCOLN'. 



\\'ith his own experience in military 
affairs, and with a knowledge of the 
parts borne by his father and brother 
in the War of the Rebellion, it was not 
at all strange that our ex-Light Infan- 
try officer should early volunteer in 
his services in the struggle with Spain. 

June 4, 1898, he was offered an ap- 
pointment as Captain of immunes. 
with the choice of wdiite or colored 
troops, but yielding to the wishes of 
his family and friends, he accepted 
the position of Captain and Assistant 
Commissary of Subsistence, etc. 

In June, 1898, an order was issued by 
the \\'ar Department directing him as 
Captain and Assistant Commissary of 
Subsistence, U. S. \'.,to report to JNIajor 
General J. J. Coppinger, commanding 
the Fourth Army Corps, for assign- 
ment to duty in that command, and on 
June 26th he reached headquarters at 
Tampa, Florida, and reported to the 
Adjutant-general. The following day 
he was assigned as Chief Commissary 
of the Third Division, Fourth Ami}' 
Corps. Brigadier-general Jacob Kline 
commanding, and subsequently was 
transferred to the Second Brigade of 
that same division, Brigadier-general 
James Rush Lincoln in command. 
This brigade consisted of the Ggtli 
Xew York, 3d Ohio, and 2d Georgia 
regiments of volunteer infantry. 

The camp was at what was known 
as Palmetto Beach, about three miles 
from Tampa, and near the beach. 
Sanitarv conditions were abominal)lc. 
and during the latter part of his stay 
here, after the rainy season had set in. 
life- was almost intolerable. 

After the Protocol had been signed 
and all hope of active service removed, 
the jiatriotism of every volunteer offi- 
cer was sorelv tried. 



Early in July the Fourth Army 
Corps was ordered to Fernandina, 
Florida. But two regiments of his 
brigade joined in this movement, the 
2d Georgia being detached and ordered 
to remain in Tampa. The camp at 
Fernandina was laid out about two 
miles from the sea beach in sand almost 
knee deep, infested with, it seemed, 
every known insect, the air fever- 
laden, the hospitals full and the duties 
arduous and trying. In spite of a strong 
fight against conditions Captain 
Lincoln's health became so impaired 
that by order of General Lincoln, the 
brigade commander, he was conveyed 
to a small hotel on the beach and 
placed under the care of Hospital 
Steward Wood of the 69th New York. 
He was desperately ill, but a deter- 
mined will and the excellent care of 
Wood pulled him through, and after 
four weeks he returned to (juarters. 

.\fter fixe weeks at Fernandina the 
third movement of the Fourth Cori)s 
was made, this time to Huntsville, 
.\la.. where the Third Division was 
gi\en a most beautiful location, and., 
for the first time, the camp was a 
comparatively comfortable habitation. 

The long siege with fever and dys- 
entery hail tdld se\-erely on Captain 
Lincoln's strength, and at last, by the 
advice of the surgeons, but nuich 
against his wisho. lie was sent home 
on sick leaxe. Tlu 3d Ohio Regiment 
had been mustered out and sent home, 
and only the 69th New York remained, 
so that the duties of Brigade Commis- 
sarv were minimized. He returned 
from sick lea\-e on November 2d, soon 
after the order had been issued reor- 
ganizing the Fourth Army Corps, 
and assigning Major-general Joseph 
Wheeler to its command. Captain Lin- 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



coin's new assignment was to the First 
lirigade, Second Division, Brigadier- 
general < lilbert S. Carpenter command- 
ing, and stationed at Anniston, Ala. 
This brigade consisted of the 1st U.S. 
Regnlar Infantry, the 4th Kentucky, 
\'. I., and the 3d .\lahama, \'. I., and 
the division was nn<ler tlu- CMmmaml 
of Major-general Royal I-'rank. 

Winter (juarters were now estab- 
lished and the dixision settled down to 
routine duty. ( )n January 1st, 1899. 



tril)uting depot at Quemados. nine 
miles from Havana, the base of sup- 
plies for the Seventh Army Corps, 
Major-general Fitzhugh Lee, the 2d 
Volunteer Engineers and the beef 
supply plant of Swift & Co. furnishing 
fresh beef for Camp Columbia and the 
trciiips in the city of Havana and its 
>uliurbs. This was a most im].)ortant 
and responsible assignment. About 
13,000 troops were rationed from this 
dei)ot, and cash sales of stores to ofifi- 




( Al' I .\l.\ W INSI.C J\\ 



came this welcimie order: "C'aptain 
W'inslow S. Lincoln. C. S. L'. S. V., is 
relie\-ed from duty with the I'irst l'>ri- 
L;ade, Second l)i^i^ion, I'durth .\rmy 
('(ir])s, and will proceed to FLiN'ana, 
Cuba, and re])ort to Colonel .\. L. 
.'-^milh, (/liief Commissary of the Divi- 
sion (if Cuba, for duty as assistant in 
his office." and on the i6th of the same 
month he reached FLtvana and re- 
]iorted in accordance with this order. 
He was at once assigned to the ilis- 



cers and men ran from $8000 to 
$12,000 per month. The beef contract 
of the Swifts provided that transpor- 
tation from tide water in the United 
.States to Cuba be furnished by the 
War Department, and transports were 
not at all times available. In conse- 
(|uence of this arrangement the con- 
tractors were unable to keep a supply 
of refrigerated beef on hand, and it 
became necessary to ]>urchase beef on 
the hoof from the supply in the hands 



LIGHT IXFAXTRY. COMPAXY C. 



]45 



of native owners and the dealers from 
the "States" who had in\-aded tlie 
market. 

Captain Lincoln's knowledge of cat- 
tle values made him a valuable officer 
for this duty, and the Chief Commis- 
sary, Colonel Smith, recognized this 
at once and assigned him as Ijeef 
purchasing and inspection ofificer, and 
as such he did good service for the de- 
partment. 

Captain Lincoln was a strict disci- 
plinarian, not only for those under his 
orders, but for himself as well, and the 
depot at Quemados was a model one, 
not alone in its arrangement, but in 
the economy of its management. (")ne 
clerk, one commissary sergeant, one 
sales clerk and eight Cuban laborers 
sufficed to perform the labors of its ad- 
ministration, and that the work was 
well done was attested by Major-gen- 
eral John C. Breckenridge. Inspector 
Cieneral V. S. A., who pronounced the 
depot an excellent one. 

In March. 1899. came the general 
order honorably discharging the vol- 
unteer staf¥, and on April loth Cap- 
tain Lincoln left Cuba for home via 
the steamer "City of Havana," to 
Savannah. Georgia. 

After five days' quarantine on De 
Fuskie Island. Savannah Harbor, he 
went north, homeward bound. His 
official connection with the United 
States service terminated June ist. 

1899- 

\Miile his was not a service of bril- 
liant achievement, it was one of duty 
well and faithfully done under condi- 
tions of discouragement, and Avith an 
absence of that exhilarating influence 
which comes with active service in bat- 
tle. It was a record to be proud of. 
from the very fact that there were 
none of the spectacular elements which 



make such duty easy and light. It 
may be said with all truth that his ser- 
vices were held in high esteem by 
every officer under whom he served, 
and the noble traditions of the family 
lost none of their lustre through him. 

Captain Lincoln joined the Light In- 
fantry first in 1865, and served his en- 
listment period in the ranks and was 
duly mustered out; beginning June, 
1875, he was .Vide-de-camp, with rank 
of Captain, for nearly a year: in Sep- 
tember, 1876, he enlisted again, and 
thence onward was rapidly promoted. 
Through the various gradations he 
was thoroughly drilled in the school of 
the soldier, holding the important po- 
sition of first sergeant. ])assed through 
the lieutenancies, and finally reached 
the infantryman's goal, the captainc\-. 
heading the Companv from November 
2T,. 1880, to Octobe'r 3. 1883. For 
this soldierly experience he had re- 
ceived a boyhood's preparation in the 
Highland Alilitary Academy. 

Possessed of a competence, having a 
delightful home with wife and chil- 
dren, maintaining one of the finest es- 
tates in Worcester, the Willow Farm 
on Chandler Street, corner of Mav. 
what reason was there for him to leave 
so much comfort for the rough life in 
the field? The old French motto, 
noblesse oblige, found here a fitting ap- 
plication. Xame and heredity would 
not permit him to stay when others 
were going, hence the commission, 
the service, the impaired health, the 
two invalid years at the dear old home, 
and last of all the final muster out. 
May 3d, 1902. Though the bugle has 
blown for him the last tattoo, his com- 
rades and friends do not forget, and in 
Light Infantry annals they write in 
bright, large letters on their scroll of 
fame the name of the latest Lincoln. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



AT PRESENT. 



How well the khaki wearers have 
borne their parts in the intervening 
rears niav be gathered in the following 
roster of names, residences and occu- 
pations, as far as the same can be ob- 
tained. Unless otherwise indicated in 
the list, the state is Massachusetts and 
the city Worcester: 

Captain Frank L. Allen, contractor and 

buiUler. 
Lieutenant Herbert H. Warren, dentist. 
Sergeant Arthur S. Longley. bookkeeper. 
Sergeant George W. Stebbins, custodian, 

Art Museum. 
Sergeant George H. Hill, broker. 
Sergeant Charles T. Fletcher, U. S. .\. 
Sergeant William E. Barton, business. New- 
York, N. Y. 
Sergeant J. Warren Holbrook, salesman. 
Corporal Charles H. Colburn, foreman. 
Corporal John L. Wilniot, trucking. 
Corporal Charles H. Vaughan, Jr., carpenter 

and builder, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Corporal Pelham W. Lincoln, manager, Man- 

diester Depot, Vt. 
Corporal Clifford T. Eldridge, bookkeeper. 
Corporal George E. Ri.x, bookkeeper. 
Cook August G. Biersdorf, chef, Boston. 
Musician .Aurelius F. Wheeler, dentist. 
Musician Harry T. Chapin. U. S. .\rmy, 

Boston. 
.\rtificer Edward A. Stearns, Highway De- 
partment. 
Wagoner Fred. B. Maynard, insurance, Pitts- 
field. 
Privates: 
Harry H. .Adams, U, S. Army. 
Olnoy T. Aldrich, Fire Department. 
John H. Allen, salesman, St. Louis, Mo. 
Lyman Bartlett, bookkeeper. 
George H. Bejune, bookkeeper. 
George E. Bennett, U. S. Army, 
James F. Bradley, clerk, Boston. 
Emory A. Briggs, electrician, N'a\y "I'ard, 

Charlestown. 
Irving A. Brigham, foreman, Wcstboro. 
Cliarles A. Browne, U. S. .\rmy. 



Clarence E. Butler, salesman, 
George C. Butler. U. S. Army. 
William H. Butler, with Natural Food Co., 

Niagara Falls. N. Y. 
Fred A. Clarkson, -salesman. 
Leonard E. Crooker, Fire Department: has 

served in U. S. .Army. 
Forrest E. Grossman, advertising agent. New 

York, N. Y. 
Fred P. Dean, sign-painter, but the most of 
his time since the war has been given to 
returning to America the bodies of de- 
ceased soldiers. 
William G. Dennis, clerk. 
William W. Eddy, Buttrick Co., New York, 

N. Y. 
George S. ['arrow, salesman. 
James H. Flynn, U. S. .Army. 
Walter I. Gage, bookkeeper, Boston. 
O. J. W. Gleason, letter-carrier. 
I^ouis B. Glixman, clerk and Common Council- 
man. 
Henry J. Greene, insurance. 
Fred C. Hale, draughtsman, Norwich, Ct, 
Ralph E. Henderson, machinist. 
Willard J. Humes, court clerk, Grafton, 
Roland Johnson, carpet-finisher. 
George T. Jones, bookkeeper. 
Herbert W. Kincaid. manager. New York, 

N. Y. 
Charles H.. Knibbs, trucking, 
Edward J. Martin, shipper. 
George Martin. U. S. Army. 
Waldo A. Merrifield, shipper, 
Alonzo J. Pembleton, Fire Department. 
James E, Pope, optician, Newark, N.J. 
Burton A. Prince, foreman. 
Winfield D. Rheutan, clerk, Richmond, Va. 
Charles M. Sands, livery, Montpelier, Vt.: 

has been in U. S. Army. 
Robert Taft, Police Department. 
James H. Taylor, machinist. 
James E. L. Todd, manufacturer. 
Fred. J. Tucker, farmer. Rutland. 
.Arthur T. Wintersgill, machinist, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 
Edwin D. Wooldridge, electrician, Lynn. 
Emil Zaeder, lawyer. 



LIGHT INFAXTKV. COMPANY C. 147 

MusTEK-iN Roll oi-- Comi'axy C, 2d Ri-dniKxr nf Infaxtkv, Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers, lx the Service of the United States, for Two 
Years, from May io, i8g8, unless Sooner Discharged. 

[The data, in order, cover rank. name, age, hirtliplace and occupation.] 



Frank L. Allen. 35. Worcester, civil £jj^. _y. Stearns, J5, Wurccslcr. l.)lack- 
ensiiieer. sinith. 

FIRST LIEUTKXANT. WAGONER. 

\rtluir C. Kin<;-, 31. Worcester, mer- Frfd- I''- Maynard, 22, Worcester, 
chant. ' salesman. 



SECOND LIEUTENANT. 



PRI\AI"E? 



.Adanis. Marrv H.. 20. Ltnllow. Vt., 

Herbert H. \\'arren. 34. Clinton, Horist. 

'''-■"t'^t- Aldrich, ( )lne.v T., 2^, Sutton, elec- 

triciaiL 

SERGEANTS. ,i^,j^.,^^ j,,,^,^ j[ _ _„_ Pa„ton, Vt.. clerk. 

Arthur S. Loni^lev. 26. Millbury, book- lUirtlett, Lyman, 20, Worcester, clerk. 

keeper. ' Bejune. George H., 20, Springfield, 

George W. Stebbins. 2c). Worcester, bookkeeper. 

eno-raver. P.ennett, George E., 2^,. Worcester, 

George" H. Hill,* 30, Worcester, man- contractor. 

ufacturer. ' P.iersdorf, Augustus (t.. 2t,. Coburg. 

Charles T. Fletcher. 2J. Worcester. Saxony, cook. 

drauo-htsnian. I'.radley. James V.. 23. I'utnam, Conn., 

William'^E. I'.arton. 24. Worcester. bookkeeper. 

publisher. Priggs, Emory .A.. 20. .\thol, clerk. 

Joseph W. Holbrook. 24. I'.arre, sales- Brighain, Irving .\.. 27. A\'estboro, 

man. shoemaker. 

Browne. Charles A.. 42. New Bedford, 

CORPORALS. gasfitter. 

^ ^ ,, Butler, Clarence E., 29. Sanford. Me., 

Charles H. Colburn. 26, Orono, .Me., clerk. 

envelope cutter. I'.utler George C. 18. Hartford. Cmin., 

John L. Wilmot. 2T,. Boston, clerk. machinist. 

Charles A. Vaughan. Jr.. 26, \\ orces- |.,^,t|^,r. William H.. 30. I'nuidence, 

ter, carpenter. p. j _ accountant. ' 
Pelham W. Lincoln. 2=,. Worcester, ,^-iarkson, Fred IL, 18, Worcester, en- 
salesman, graver. 
Clifford T. Fldridge. 2T,. Worcester. ^rooker, Leonard ^L. 30. Shrewsbury. 

clerk. T , , , ■ carpenter. 

George lulmund Rix. 2S, Memphis, (^-ry^^man. Forrest E., 22. Worcester. 

Tenn.. clerk. theatrical. 

Dean. Fred P.. 40. Worcester, sign 

MUSICIANS. painter. 

Anrelius F. \\-heeler. 25. Xorth Fen- Dennis, William G.. 24. Worcester. 

ton. N. v.. dentist. salesman. 

Harrv T. Chapm. 2^^. Worcester, elec- Dowse. Robert H.. 2<), Sherborn. 

trician. " woodcarver. 

*Owing to illness Sergeant Hill did not go with his company to Cuba, but was detailed for 

duty in the .Adjutant-general's Department, 4th Army Corps, rejoining the Infantry at Montauk. 



148 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 

Drury, Euo'ene F.. z-j, Leicc-ster. sales- Merritiold, Waldo A.. 23, Worcester. 

man. bookkeeper. 

Eddy, William W., 2(). Fitchlnirg', re- Pembleton. Alonzo J-. 27. Bandalier, 

porter. Mich., electrician. 

Farrow, George S.. 2},. Botsford Port- Pitts, Royal H., 23, Sndlniry, \'t., im- 
age, N. B., clerk. dertaker. 

Flynn, James H., Jr., 21, Sprino-field. Pope, James E., 26, Laconia, X. H., 

laborer. optician. 

Gage, \A'alter I.. 21. Hyde Park, man- IVince, P>urton A.. 21, Worcester, 

ufacturer. stndent. 

Gleason. ( kliorne J. W., 2(), Holden, Klieutan, Winfield D.. 21, XN'orcester, 

letter carrier. clerk, 

(ili.xman. Louis E!., 20, Russia. ])ainter. Roherts, William I).. 18, Stafford, 
Greene, Henry J., 10, Woodstock, Conn., salesman. 

Conn., student. Stewart, .Vrtliur ]^., ig. Grand Pre, 
Hale, Fred C, 21, Xorth D.nna, X. S.. machinist. 

draughtsman. .Sands, Charles M.. nj. Parisville. X. Y., 
Henderson, Ralph E., 23, Belfast, Me., farmer. 

machinist. Taft, Fredk. 1!., 30, Hingham. sales- 
Humes. W'illard J., 23, Milllniry, man. 

lawyer. Taft, Robert, 22, Charltcm, shoecutter. 

Johnson, Roland, 26, Lancashire, Eng., Taylor, James H., },2. Manchester, 

finisher. X. H., clerk. 

Jones, George T.. 2}^. \\'orcester, clerk. Todd, James E. L.. 23, Turks Island, 
Kincaid, Herbert W., 2~ , Lewiston, West Indies, salesman. 

Me., salesman. Tucker, h'red J.. 24. .\uhurn. farmer. 

King, Joseph C, 23. Leicester, printer. Wentworth, Harold 1'.., 2S. \\ orcester, 
Knibl)s. Charles IL, i<), Worcester, teacher. 

manager. \\'heeler, James W., 32. WeyuKJUth, 
Martin, Edward J.. 24. Wilton, X. B.. insurance. 

clerk. Wintersgill, .\rthur T., 20, Worcester, 
Alartin. ( ieorge, 21, Constantinople, machinist. 

Turkey, clerk. Wooldridg.-. Edwin 1)., 21, Cornwall, 
Ma_\o, Silas I.. 23. l-'airlicld. pa]>er- hjig., clerk. 

hanger. Zaeder, iMiiil, 22. Worcester, lawyer. 



LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



149 



CENTENNIAL OF THE LIGHT INFANTRY WITH 
HISTORY— JUNE 6. 1903. 



Not since Worcester celebrated its 
bi-centennial has the city seen a more 
enthusiastic occasion than that wliich 
hroug^'ht to an end the one hundred 
years of the Light Infantry's existence. 
For manv a long day the event had 
been talked over and hundreds of 
members have regretted that their 
active connection with the Com- 
]iany could not be at this particular 
time. For a century young men have 
practiced the drill peculiar to their day 
and generation ; have had their taste of 
camp life, possibly of real soldiering, 
and then have taken their places in the 
veteran ranks, to be thereafter recog- 
nized as the "has beens" : valuable re- 
serves, however, for times when num- 
bers count and contributions are neces- 
sarv for the proper observance of cer- 
tain days. 

Such an occasion was that just past, 
and it is safe to state that very few- 
men who ever wore the uniform of the 
Light Infantry were not in hearty 
sympathy with each and every plan to 
make the event memorable. Fully five 
years ago, the veteran organization 
began to prepare for the celebration, 
and, when the time was ripe, was able 
to turn over a considerable sum of 
monev to the general fund. In addi- 
tion, the citizens, who have a justifia- 
ble ])ride in their oldest military com- 
]ianv. were ready to lend a hand, so 
that the bills, though heavy, were 
readily met. 

The campaign, which began \\ ed- 
nesday evening, June 3d, and termi- 
nated early in the morning of the 7th, 
though not so bloody, was quite as try- 
ing as any ever passed through by the 
Company. If the boys obtained any 
sleep at all it was by snatches, and even 
those they thought wasted. There was 
so much to see, and so many things to 
be done, that sleep, though so lilessed 
by Sancho Panza, was passed by till 
some more convenient season. 

The Company left Worcester f(ir 
Boston late in the afternoon of the 3d, 



en route to Portland, to assist in the 
observance, of the same birthday by the 
twin company of that city. Though 
sleeping places were assigned on board 
the steamer which conveyed them to 
the lovely city on the Casco, such as- 
signments were quite superfluous. The 
best of weather prevailed, not a drop of 
rain falling throughout the entire 
period, though it began the very next 
day after. Even the fires and smoke of 
Maine were not amiss, since they 
served to cloud the otherwise burning 
ravs of the solstitial sun. Maine's chief 
city did her very best in entertaining 
the Ijoys in blue from the mother 
State, and no time was wasted. 

It was a very generous thing for the 
Portland boys to do, viz., to volunteer 
to antici])ate their own day and to yield 
the auspicious 6th to the Massachu- 
setts company. If old Governor Strong 
a century since had only reflected on 
the possible mix-up in the future, he 
might have prevented the coincident 
dates by holding one charter for just 
twenty-four hours, but he did nothing 
of the kind, and the dates of birth are 
the same, ami for all time the com- 
panies are twins. 

That special train home from Maine 
bore a happy array of young men, all 
intent on getting the most possible out 
of the trip. Never was the old Latin 
motto, "Carpc dicni," or "Seize the 
day," more literally obeyed; indeed, 
the boys seized the night also. Their 
arrival in Worcester, though late, was 
enthusiastic, and from Union Station 
to the Bay State, red fire marked the 
march of the returning and vi.siting cit- 
izen soldiers. 

Then when the 6th. the long ex- 
pected, the dreamed-of day, dawned, 
the city was agog to see her own bo3's 
and those of other states. It is true 
that a coincident circus may have added 
to the throngs : it is pretty certain that 
the mass of the people were out to see 
their militia company and those who 



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LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



151 



were to parade with them. ( )wins;- to 
faulty railroad connections, some of the 
Connecticut soldiers were late, hence 
the start from the Armor}- was a little 
more than one hour late, but when the 
lines did appear they were most heartily 
greeted. \Vhile, on occasion. Worces- 
ter has entertained more soldiers, she 
never had on one day a greater variety. 
In addition to the Light Infantrx-, in 
their new uniforms, and their twin 
brothers from Portland, were all of the 
city's five organizations, with the 
Fitchburg Fusiliers, the United Train 
from Providence, a company from the 
1st Heavy Artillery of Boston, and two 
companies from Hartford, Conn. ; and 
what attention their bright uniforms 
excited ! There was the brilliant red 
of the Governor's Foot Guard, along 
with the white of the City Guards, that 
followed close behind. 

Somewhere along Main Street it 
would seem that nearly every Worces- 
ter citizen took a glance at the men 
with the guns. By no means incon- 
spicuous were the lads from the High- 
land Military Academy with their natty 
suits of gray. \Vhen at last the lines 
returned to the Armory and there 
stacked their rifles, preparatory to the 
day's outing at the Lake, there were 
few if any who were not glad that they 
had had a chance to see just how lively 
and reliable men could be on their one 
hundredth birthday. 

Over the variety antl pleasures of the 
da\- at Edgemere it is unnecessary to 
linger, for when did youth and vigor 
ever fail to find amusement in the pass- 
ing hour? The games, jokes and songs, 
will their memory ever fade? A sus- 
picious hoarseness for days afterwards 
told how zealously many tried to add 
their voices to the general hilarity. 
While the suspension of electrical con- 
nection delayed the return from the 
Lake and compelled the soldiers to 
march, their armless passage through 
Front Street was not the least inter- 
esting of the many episodes of that 
e\-entful day. 

Meanwhile, hungry hundreds were 
waiting, with more or less patience, in 
the vestibule of \\"ashburn Hall, won- 
dering where their uniformed compat- 



riots were. Half past si.x p.m. extended 
to some time past eight before the ar- 
rival of the most important part of the 
Company, and the lines were farmed 
for the hall above. AFechanics Hall has 
seated many a gathering, but never a 
jollier one than that which filled every 
seat, and some overflowed into Wash- 
burn Hall below. Caterer Brigham has 
no reason to apologize for the ajipetiz- 
ing menu which claimed the time and 
attention of every one till past nine 
o'clock. The music of the bands, along 
with the singing of all between 
courses, made the time pass rapidly. 

Finally, when Captain Rider indi- 
cated a change from a feast of viands 
to that of thought and reason, no one 
wiDuld blame him if through his frame 
there ran a thrill of pride at the happy 
progress of the celebration. In a few 
and fitting words he passed the further 
exercises into the hands of James Lo- 
gan, a veteran member of the Company. 
It was a lucky day for the lnfantr_\- 
when this same boy of Scottish birth 
took into his head to play soldier for a 
while, since to no single individual is 
due more of the success of the observ- 
ances than to him. He was only a clerk 
in one of \\'orcester's business estab- 
lishments when he first essayed his mil- 
itary role, but he played his part well, 
as he has every other one that he has 
undertaken since. Whenever the boys 
want something done they are likely to 
turn to their veteran, Logan, who is 
ever ready, both to raise money and to 
talk. He took both parts in the cen- 
tennial play, and took them finely. His 
introductions and his own response to 
the toast. "The Ladies." were excellent. 
It would be a pleasure to reproduce 
every w'ord spoken here, but it must 
suffice to state that whether it was 
Mayor Fletcher, Lieutenant-governor 
( iuikl, or Alderman Chapman of Port- 
land, all were enthusiastically received. 
Space, however, is found for the com- 
])rehensive story of the Company as 
told by Major Frederick (i. Stiles, who, 
bearing his weight of almost seventy- 
eight years, with clear, ringing voice 
recited the tale of a centurj-. He was 
greeted with enthusiasm by his audi- 
ence, which rose to receive him, every 



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one reflecting on the Providence which 
had preserved for this dnty a man 
who, more than sixty years ago, had 
signed his first enlistment paper, had 
won his golden laurel leaf in the War 
of the Rebellion, and now, the oldest 
surviving member of the Companv, 
could tell its story in a manner to in- 
terest and delight every listener: 



In the year 1803 there was but one 
uniformed military company in the 
town of Worcester, an artillery com- 
pany, founded and commanded bv 
Major William Treadwell (of Revo- 
lutionary fame) in 1783. 

Hut there were two companies of 
State militia, that met once each year 
for inspection and enrollment. No'two 
persons were dressed alike, and their 
guns were of every conceivable pat- 
tern and make, and their parades were 
looked upon as a burlesque bv the peo- 
ple of the town. 

So much for the military of this 
Commonwealth previous to the form- 
ation of the Company whose birth and 
one hundredth anniversary we are here 
to-night to celebrate. 

It has been said that it was at the 
suggestion of Rev. Dr. Aaron Bancroft, 
the founder of the Second Parish 
Church in Worcester, and who carried 
a gun at Concord — and also at Bunker 
Hill in 1795 (then a student at Harvard 
College) — that an application was 
niailc to the Legislature for a charter 
to tcirm an independent militarv in- 
fantry company in tlie town of Wor- 
cester. The petition for the same was 
written by Levi Lincoln, Jr., and signed 
by several leading citizens of the town, 
and sent to the Adjutant-general of the 
State at Boston. .And it is a singular 
coincident that one hundred years ago 
to-day permission was granted by the 
Legislature of the Province of Massa- 
chusetts for the formation of two in- 
dependent military companies, une at 
Portland, the other at Worcester ; both 
at that time being within the State of 
Massachusetts. 

On June 6th, 1803, the charters were 
signed by Caleb Strong, then Governor 



of the State. They were designated as 
the Portland Light Infantry and the 
Worcester Light Infantry ; both these 
organizations are on active duty to- 
day, with all the strength and vigor of 
the first parade, but of those who made 
up their rank and file not one remains. 

The last survivor of the original 
Worcester Light Infantry was Charles 
Tappan. He was born in Northampton, 
Mass., in 1784. He came to Worcester 
as an apprentice to Dr. Isaiah Thomas, 
and served his apprenticeship in the 
office of the Massachusetts Spy. He 
was one of the charter members of the 
Worcester Light Infantry (in 1803), 
and for ten years was identified with it. 

In 1813 he removed to Portsmouth, 
N. H., and soon after went with others 
in the Swedish brig Margaretta to St. 
John, N. B., and filled her with British 
gi.Kids. intendiu"' to take them to Bath, 




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Mt'.. to dispose of. All they had to 
fear were American privateers. and the>- 
hired Captain Samuel Elythe of H. B. 
AI. brig Boxer to convey them to the 
Kennebec River. It was agreed that 
when they were about to enter the 
mouth of the river, two or three guns 
should be fired over them, to have the 
appearance of trying to stop them 
should any idle people be looking on. 

Lieutenant William Burroughs of 
the U. S. brig Enterprise lay in Port- 
land Harbor, and hearing the guns, got 
under way. and, as is well known, cap- 
tured the Boxer after a severe engage- 
ment which lasted forty minutes, in 
which both commanders .were killed, 
;ind three days later. Sept. 8th (1813). 
were buried at Portland in the same 
grave with military honors. Tappan, 
after disposing of the cargo of the 
Margaretta, went to Boston, and after 
a few years removed to ^^'ashington, 
D. C. where, in 1874. he died, aged go 
\-ears and 8 mmitlis. the last of the 




Major F. G. Sti 



original members of the Worcester 
Light Infantry. 

For one hundred years, the 6th day 
of June when it did not fall upon Sun- 
day, or when the companies were not 
engaged in actual service, has been set 
apart by both organizations to cele- 
brate the anniversary of their birth. 
And it is most fitting that after the 
lapse of one hundred years these twin 
companies, the Portland and the Wor- 
cester Light Infantry, should celebrate 
their natal day together. 

\\"e are here for that purpose to- 
night, to keep the record unbroken, 
and give inspiration to those who, in 
the years to come, shall comprise their 
membership. For we feel assured that 
these two organizations, that have sur- 
mounted all obstacles for one hundred 
years, are too deeply imbedded in the 
hearts of the people of Portland and 
\\'orcester to ever die out. Their ex- 
istence must be perennial. 

When the Worcester Light Infaiitrv 
was organized in the town of Worces- 
ter in 1803. it was the aim of the citi- 
zens to elevate to a higher standard 
the militia of the State, to bring about 
uniformity of (dress, equipment and 
efficiency of discipline, and to establish 
an independent volunteer militia. 

This was accomplished, and soon 
after a rifle company and a cavalry one 
were added to Worcester's militarv 
force. These commands flourished 
until a change in the laws in relation to 
the militia w'as brought about by 
pulilic sentiment being adverse to the 
e.\]:>ense (which was considered a use- 
less one), and as a result, about 1834. a 
majority of the State militia were dis- 
lianded l)y general orders. 

r.ut the AVorcester Light Infantry 
escaped annihilation, and held on 
through all the opposition that was 
brought to bear upon it. And it is a 
matter of pride to us that to-day — with 
a record of one hundred years liehind it 
— it stands among the first who in every 
emergency have entered the field of 
active service whenever and wherever 
the need came, and has been either as a 
company or by representation in every 
war of the United States since its for- 
mation. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



On August 4th. 1807. the Company, 
under the command of Captain Enoch 
Flag-g, voted its services at a moment's 
notice to James Sullivan, then Gov- 
ernor of Massachusetts, but were not 
needed at that time. War with Eng- 
land, however, was only postponed, 
not averted, and on September 14th. 
1814, the Worcester Light Infantry 
was ordered by Governor Caleb Strong 
to Boston to repel British invasion. 

In 1846 the Company voted its ser- 
vices to Governor George N. Briggs 
for the Mexican War, but the quota of 
troops from Massachusetts l)eing full, 
it was not ordered to report. 

On the evening of April i6th. 1861, 
the members of the Worcester Light 
Infantrv had assembled for drill at 
their Armory in Horticultural Hall, 
when, between ten and eleven o'clock. 
Colonel John \V. \\'etherell of Gov- 
ernor Andrew's staff appeared with 
verbal orders (for Captain Harrison W. 
Pratt) calling out the Company for 
active duty, and to report at the State 
House, Boston, forthwith. 

The order was received with cheers. 
Absent members were notified, and in 
six hours every member had assembled 
for (lutv. It was the first company to 
leave the city, and a part of the "(Jld 
Sixth" Regiment, the first to leave the 
State, and in passing through Balti- 
more, Md., April 19th, 1861. on its way 
to Washington, D. C, the first blood 
of the Civil \\' ar was shed. 

Never can I forget the enthusiasm 
of the ])eople of our city when upon 
Saturday, August 3, 1861, the Light 
Infantry had returned to its home, 
with honor untarnished, and the proud 
assurance that had its response to our 
countrv's call been less ready, or the 
arrival' of the dth Regiment (of which 
it formed a part) been delayed twelve 
hiiurs, the cajjital would have l)een in 
the hands of the enemy. 

Right well did the Company deserve 
the royal welcome given it in behalf of 
the city by its honored Mayor, Col. 
Isaac Davis, who, at one time, was an 
• active member of the Worcester Light 
Infantry, and always its friend. 

.\fter the return to Massachusetts 
and muster-out of the "Old Sixth," 



other companies were recruited by offi- 
cers and privates of the Light Infantry 
who had received commissions to raise 
them ; ( )ne company for the 25th 
Mass. Vols, in 1861 ; one company for 
the 34th Regt.. 1861 ; one company for 
the 42d Regt. in 1862 : one company 
for the 51st Regt. in 1862; and one for 
the 42d Regt. in 1864. 

All these companies, until mustered 
out by expiration of term of service, 
gave the Worcester Light Infantry a 
■record of furnishing more than 600 
officers and men for the armies of the 
United States in the Civil War. 

( )n Mav 3d, i8g8, the entire State 
militia cif our city was again called into 
acti\e scr\ice in the Spanish-.\merican 
War: the Emmet Guards being as- 
signed to the yth Regiment (after- 
wards called the Bloody Ninth), Bat- 
tery B for coast defenses, and the City 
Guards, Wellington Rifles and Wor- 
cester Light Infantry as a part of the 
3d Battalion, 2d Regiment, Mass. Vol. 




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155 



^[ilitia. coniiiiaiidcd by Major H. ]'>. 
Fairbanks, a former captain of the 
Worcester Light Infantry. 

The prosperity of the \\'orcester 
Light Infantry has depended upon not 
only its founders, but upon every offi- 
cer and member that has been enrolled 
since its organization, but especially 
upon the first three commissioned offi- 
cers : Levi Thaxter, captain ; Enoch 
Flagg, first lieutenant, and Levi Lin- 
coln, ensign. These officers were all 
living more than half a century after 
the Company was formed. 

Captain George F. Peck, who is with 
us to-night, commanded the Company 
in 1855. and sent invitations to these 
officers to attend the fifty-second an- 
niversary. Neither of them was able 
to accept, but all sent acknowledg- 
ment and regrets. 

Ensign Levi Lincoln lived sixty-five 
vears after the Company was formed. 




never losing his intiTesl in it, but al- 
ways having a wurd of cheer, and an 
open house, for all whu com])rised its 
membership. 

Ensign Lincoln had a notable career. 
He was Governor of the Common- 
wealth nine years, from 1825 to 1834, 
and it was his distinguished honor to 
preside when. June i6th. 1825. the 
Legislature received General Lafay- 
ette, and also to represent the State on 
the following day, when the corner- 
stone was laid of the monument on 
r.unker Hill. He was six years in 
Ci ingress, collector of the port of Bos- 
ton. President of the State Senate, and 
in 1848 the first Mayor of our city. 
And the name of Lincoln has been on 
the Coiupany roll from its inceiHion to 
the present time. 

Three brothers were enrolled in it : 
Iinoch Lincoln, who was afterwards 
(Governor of Maine; William Lincoln, 
the historian, and John W. Lincoln, 
who commanded the Comjiany from 
i8t2 to 1816. during the last war with 
luigland. He held several town offices, 
and was high sheriff of the county. 

W illiani S. Lincoln, a son of Levi, 
commanded the Company from 1832 
to 1834. He was Colonel of the 34th 
Regiment. Mass. Vols., in the Civil 
War, and was breveted general. 

Daniel \\ aldo Lincoln, a brother of 
William S.. commanded the Com])any 
from 1838 to 1841. He was Mayor of 
(lur city in 1863 and '64. 

Another brother, George Lincoln. 
w.is .-i number at one time, and after- 
wards ranked as captain in the regular 
armv. He was killed at the Battle of 
r.iiena \'ista in Mexico while rallying 
;in Indiana regiment that had slam- 
|n<led. His body was brought to Wor- 
cester, and buried with military honors 
])v the Worcester Light Infantry, who 
vohmteered for that duty. 

William Lincoln, a son of William 
S.. was a member of the Company in 
1861. and served with it in the Old 
Sixth Regiment. 

Levi Lincoln, Jr.. also a son of Wil- 
liam S.. commanded the Company from 
1875 to 1877. 

Winslow S. Lincoln, youngest son 
of William S.. commanded the Com- 



156 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



pany from 1880 to 1883. He served in 
the Spanish-American War of 1898 as 
a captain in the regular army. He was 
a member of our Veteran Association, 
and was with us two years ag-o at our 
ninety-eighth anniversary. 

Peiham W. Lincoln, a grandson of 
Ensign Levi, is an active member to- 
day, and served with the Company as 
corporal in the campaign of 1898. 

We are proud of the Lincoln record, 
and doubt if it can be equaled by any 
other military company where so many 
members of one family, even to the 
fourth generation, have been enrolled 
in its ranks. 

All told, there have been forty-four 
commanders of the Worcester Light 
Infantry from 1803 to the present 
time, all but four of whom I ha\'e per- 
sonally known. 

I well remember the C(inii)an\- in 
my boyhood days. It was the l)anner 
company then. It had one rival in the 
Holden Grenadiers. The annual mus- 
ter always ended with a sham battle, 
and wdien the two companies were on 
the same side they invariably carried 
all before them ; Init when, as some- 
times happened, the}- opposed each 
other, it was actual war. 

If time permitted. nian_\' other 
e\'ents in the history of the Company 
since my day might be related, but it 
needs no eulogy other than the record 
it has made for itself in the past, and 
is still making to-day. as a military 
organization. 

All honor to those who first made 
up the rank and file of the Worcester 
Light Infantry. And to-night my 
heart goes out to those members with 
whom I was associated sixty and more 
years ago, of whom but few are living. 
The memory of the old days and the 
friendships formed then have not 
faded, but grown brighter with the 
flight of years. In this busy life of 
ours where ordinarily one's own affairs 
make up its circuit, is it not well that 
there are days so imbedded in our 
hearts, so marked by great events, 
that they seem a part of ourselves? 
Such a one is the birthday of the Port- 
land and the Worcester Light In- 
fantry. 



"If stores of dry and learned love we gain. 

We keep them in the memory of the brain; 

Names, things and facts, whate'er we knowl- 
edge call — 

There is the common ledger for them all. 

And images on this cold surface traced 

Make slight impression and are soon effaced. 

But we've a page, more glowing and more 
bright, 

On which our friendship and our love we 
write; 

That these may never from the soul depart. 

We trust them to the memory of the heart — 

There is no dimming, no effacenient there; 

Each new pulsation keeps the record clear, 

Warm golden letters all the tablet fill. 

Nor lose their lustre till the lieart stands still.'' 




LIGHT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



157 



RoSTKR OF 

Infaxtry 

TENNIAL. 



THE W'OKCESTKK LiCIIT 
AT THE C(1MI'AXy"s CeN- 



Captain, Phineas L. Rider. 
First Lieut., Frederick M. Clark. Jr. 
Second Lieut., Herbert H. Warren. 
First Sergt., William Stevenson. 
Q. M. Sergt., Lewis M. McCallum. 
Sergt., George W. Stebbins. 
Sergt., James C. Stevenson. 
Sergt., Frank A. Springer. 
Sergt., Roland Johnson. 
Corp.. George S. Farrow. 
Corp., Harry L. Hastings. 
Corp., Edward J. Martin. 
Corp., Leonard W. Russell. 
Corp., Howard K. Hobbs. 
Corp., Charles A. Peterson. 
Musician, William I. Whiting. 



John F. .\nderson. 
Percival R. Bowers, 
Charles T. Buckman, 
Harris M. Crandall. 
Clarence T. Davis. 
Frank E. Dodge, 
Karl H. Dodge, 
William C. Deacon, 
George J. Drabble. 
Henry A. Falardcau. 
Leo C. Falardeau, 
Frank L. Fisher. 
Leroy J. Flint. 
George W. Grant, 
Harrv H. Greene, 
John Hall. 
Fred'k A. Harford, 
Mahlon E. Havener. 
Melvin A. Henson. 
Walter R. Hewett, 
Charles E. Holton. 
John L Hoyt, 
Gilbert S. Jackson, 



Fred Kingdiin. 
Wni. H. McCormick, 
Wni. R. McKenzic, 
.Arthur S. Morse, 
ClLirles E. Merrill, 
George W. Munger. 
Wm. L Needham. 
Eli F. Nichols, 
Giles S. Pease, 
Edmund J. Power, 
Herbert C. Putnam, 
Howard W. Robbins, 
Robert L Rose. 
Wm. H. Sampson, 
Henri A. Scott, 
Roscoe H. Shedd, 
Thomas S. Sliedd. 
Eugene L. Tinkham, 
.•\rtlnir J. Wallace, 
Ralph W. Ward. 
James C. Whittle, 
Henry E. Wheeler. 




■ LlECT. H. II. Waeres 



158 



WORCESTER IN THE SPAMSH WAR. 






Captain Charles S. Holden. 
First Lieut. Edward 11. Fish. Second Lieut. Harry T. Gi 

WELLINGTON RIFLES COMM LSSK INFO OFFICERS. 



Lir.HT INFANTRY, COMPANY C. 



1 f)!* 



Worcester in the Spanish War. 

WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMPANY H, 2D REGT., M.V.M. 




( 'RCESTER'S third Com- 
\\7 pany in the Second Reg-i- 
' ^ niont was the W'elHngton 
Killes, schechiled as "H" in 
the regimental Hst. In 1894, 
owing to the disbandment 
lit certain organizations 
■where and the growth 
I if the city, it became evi- 
dent that A\'orcester was en- 
titled to one more company 
of infantry. Receiving the 
hearty approval of the militia officers 
in \\'orcester, measures were taken to 
realize the advantage thus offered. 
The first move was made April 17th; 
the next day recruiting began, and, on 
the 24th. a roll of fifty-eight names was 
submitted to the Mayor and Aldermen 
for ap])roval, and after receiving their 
endorsement was, on the 25th, filed 
with Governor I*". T. Greenhalge. ( )n 
Sunday, the 2()th of the month, Ed- 
ward B. F"ish, whose name headed the 
list, was notified by the Adjutant-gen- 
eral that all the petitioners should be 
at the Armory for inspection the fol- 
lowing evening. Colonel Fred. ^\'. 
Wellington, a member of the Govern- 
or's stall, was the officer assigned to 
the duty of examining the would-be 
soldiers. His report being favoralile, 
company formation proceeded, and the 
evening of May 2d saw its official be- 
ginning, for then, in the presence of 
Colonel E. P. Clark and others, fifty- 
six men were mustered into the ser- 
vice of the Commonwealth. The same 
evening officers were elected as fol- 
lows : Captain, Charles E. Burbank : 
First Lieutenant, Walter E. Hassam : 
Second Lieutenant, Wright S. Prior. 
This was an excellent beginning, for 
all these men had received more or less 



military instruction, the Captain hav- 
ing been one year at West Point, while 
the lieutenants were graduates of Ver- 
mont's Norwich University, a militarv 
institution, whence Admiral George 
Dewey went to the Naval Academv at 
Annapolis. Two days later came the 
first drill of the Company. The organ- 
ization was very near its fourth anni- 
versary when the alarm of war added 
zest to the hitherto peaceful career of 
men who up to that time had experi- 
enced nothing more severe than their 
initiation into camp life at Framing- 
ham. The name by which the Com- 
pany is known is a tribute to General 
Fred. W. Wellington, long and favor- 
ably known for his services in the mili- 
tia of Massachusetts. 

As with the other companies, the 
first meeting after the issuing of the 
Governor's proclamation was at the 
Armory on the evening of the 29th, 
and it proved a crucial moment in the 
lives of these young men. Soldiering 
for play and soldiering for business 
were so very different that an earnest 
and vigorous presentation of the situa- 
tion was made by several of the mem- 
Ijers ; particularly. Lieutenant Fish as- 
sured them that they were entering on 
no picnic excursion ; this to contra- 
dict an impression which in some way 
had received credence that the affair 
would result in a few months' sojourn 
at Niantic or some other seaside lo- 
cality, thus proving a red-letter holi- 
day season, a prolonged outing, as it 
were. The Armory itself was crowded 
with a throng of visitors, all anxious 
to further the cause or to satisfy a nat- 
ural curiosity to see how the men en- 
dured the ordeal. 



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n3 S S • Zj 



S:2 S H . 2 















WELLINGTON- RIFLES, COMPANY IK 



1(11 



Captain Hnl.Icn carlv pr.x-lainicd his 
desire to recruit iiu'ii, not ■■l)(iys." for 
the exactions made demanded' settled 
convictions and firm determination. 
Had the question been one of the Com- 
pany's g-oinsj as a whole, there would 
have been no hancring back, but the in- 
dividual examination and the possible 
rejection of many put a new view upon 
the entire matter. Out of a member- 
ship of sixty, forty-one voted, two were 
out of the city, and one was unac- 
counted for: the others were present 
and did not vote, evidentlv requirint^ 
more time for deliberation' Saturday 
and Sunday were busy days, particu- 
larly the latter, for the Armory was a 
market-place for patriotic you'ng men 
who desired to serve their'countrv in 
the field. They came in great num- 
bers to talk the matter over, and many 
of them enlisted. ^Monday was an an- 
niversary in a triple sense to Company 
H. for not only was it "H's'.' birthdav. 
but it was that of Captain Holden. and 
the anniversary of his wedding-day as 
well; yet so enrapt were all in " the 
passing trial, it was deemed best to 
omit entirely all recognition of these 
events. It was, however, a day of 
preparation, for on the morrow there 
was to be the transferral to Framing- 
ham as the first step in the campaign! 
It was under rainy skies that the 
men gathered at the Armory on the 
3d for their final assembly, and, with 
their comrades of the other companies, 
heard the words of prayer and farewell 
by clergyman and Mayor. For an 
hour Alajor Fairbanks had been put- 
ting the recruits through a course of 
facings and step which brought about 
something of order in their march to 
the station, for the majority of them 
had come into the Company wholly 
ignorant of the military art, having, 
ho\ve\er, youth and patriotism, with- 
out which good soldiers cannot be 
made. In the formation of the line for 
marching to the station, the "Welling- 
tons" were second, being preceded by 
Company A, the Citv Guards. 
Wherever '"A" and "C"' went there 
also marched "H," and the route of the 
Guards and the Light Infantry is 
already in print. There was, how- 



e\or. 1,) the individual his personal 
part. Aninng the thousands who 
thronged the sidewalks .some face, 
some word were for him alone. Till 
that moment he had never realized the 
real meaning of marching in uniform, 
with his feet keeping time to the music 
so often heard before, but never sound- 
ing as It did then. Sombre skies and 
saddened strams were not calculated 
to bring joy to his heart nor smiles to 
Ins face. 

Xor were the Ijeholders anv more 
jubilant than the participants, for their 
sons and brothers were in the ranks 
As the line files into Front Street fn>m 
Afam, after the review bv the Alavor 
one mother, unable to longer con'trol 
her feelings, rushes through the 
crowds of people standing" bv and 
grasping the hand of her bov ex- 
claims : "God bless von and all the 
boys, a prayer quite in keeping with 
the wishes of every one. When the 
companies were entering the station 
passing through the lines of the Grand 
Army, a lady prayed audiblv, "May 
the blessings of God rest upoii vou all 
the time you are awav from vour 
homes, and may He bring you 'back 
safely to your friends and families," 
Some inconsiderate persons tried to 
stop her, but she still praved on; the 
boys passed by her witli uncovered 
heads, and a fervent "amen" followed 
the close of her petition. Such scenes 
and words accompanied the soldiers 
right up to and into the cars, and even 
when seated therein, through an open 
window a mother passed her ten 
months' old boy, that he might receive 
his father's farewell kiss, and as the 
latter passed the precious burden back 
he exclaimed, ".May God care for both 
ot you." Such scenes as these make 
one wonder whether soldiering ought 
not to be confined to those who have 
not assumed the duties of husband and 
father. 

These men who took the train for 
Framingham as would-be soldiers in 
Company H were those whose names 
follow, apparently in the order of 
their signatures in the enlistment 
book : 



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WOKCESTK 



IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



Captain, Charles S. HoUien. 
First Lieut., Eduani B. Fish, 
Second Lieut., Harry T. Gray, 
First Sergt.. Charles E. Monro 
Sergeant, Harry C. Young, 
Sergeant, Clarence E. Smith, 
Sergeant, Dexter E. Brigham, 
Sergeant, Fred. B. Jordan, 
Corporal, Frank L. Vaughn, 
Corporal, Marvin F. .\nies. 
Corporal, Joseph L. King. 

Harry C. Aniell, 
Herbert .\. Coates 
Arthur W. Gould, 
Everett H. Green. 



Charles M. Haye, 
Fabian H. Hakansc 
Walter F. Hooker, 
Louie S. Jones, 
William H. King, 
Albert F. Love, 
Harvey N. Mills, 
Edgar H. Norton. 
Fred W. Taft. 
John C. Ware. 
Leaver Whittaker. 
Willanl O. Bachel. 



Willis Gleason, 
Wilson Allen. 
Earle E. Clark. 
Charles P. Hubbard 
Herbert J. McCulclu 
Arthur F. Paradis, 
G. Warren Hodgins 
Silas Undergrave. 
Charles E. Lovejoy. 
Jeremiah W. King. 
Alston D. Kimball. 
Everett W. Lawren^ 
Fred. R. Hinckel. 
Herbert E. Lego. 
George A. Reed. 
Harvev Randall, 



Dana A. Bryant, 
Henry W, Miriek, 
Chas, F, Parker, Ji 
Wm. S. Smith. Jr., 
Harry Walsh. 
Charles Smith. 
George Mills. 
Walter G. Adams, 
Albert B. Scott, 
Archie L. Purinton 
Albert W. Pratt. 
F. E. Colesworthy, 
Joseiih T. Lindsey. 
Wilfred .\. Baudetl 
Albert E. Newton, 
Charles J. Flint. 



Charles W. Sleeper, 

William Green, 

Franz H. Krebs. Jr. 

William H. Stiles, 
.,n, George L. Shedd. 

Clarence E. Cook. 

Harry H. Devlin. 

..\bel E. Whitaker, 

Henry A. Mower. 

Joseph S. Gendron. 

C. W. Thimipson. 
■e. William MacC. Bon. 

Charles E. Buck. 

AUie L, Farmer, 

Frank M. Hill. 



minii 



< )f llu- seventy-four 
tliirt\'-iiiu' are recruits, \\liile in the 
Cumiianv ])r()])er marched lilteen men 
who were oritjinal charier members, 
viz.. Captain Mohlen. Lieutenants h'ish 
ami (ira\-. Sers;-eant> Mcmroe. Smith. 
Nnim.i.;. ilris'liam. Jordan and \'aui;lin. 
Cori)oral> .\nie> and josepli 1.. Kint;". 
I'rivates I'mimnn. j<>ne>, Hill and 
Mower. 




rilK ■WKLLIXinilXS" .\T camp DEWEY. 



W'EI.I.IXC.TOX RIFLES, (.(IM I'.W \' 



1G3 



Franiin^hani |in.-scntcil (HiK a coii- 
timialiiin of tlic niifa\ i iiahlc wrallicr 
through which the march to Camp 
Dewey was made and where tent-life 
began. It was a cold greeting that the 
boys had, and their patriotic imjndses 
had a severe wrench. Init thev ])roved 
e(|ual to the strain. \\'e(hies(ia\-. the 
4th, saw the arrival of the (jtli Regi- 
ment, including the Emmet (iuards 
from Worcester, and great quantities 
of wood were l)rought into the camp 
for the purpose of building fires in the 
several Company streets for the com- 
fort of the men. Thus earh- were thev 
introduced to real campfires, about 
which, up to that time, they had re- 
ceived only the glowing impressions 
from stories told by relatives who had 
passed through the trying times dur- 
ing the Rebellion, and in whose narra- 
tions there were none of the shi\-ers 
which now coursed up and down the 
spinal columns of these late recruits 
to Uncle Sam's defenders. Thursday 
took Captain Holden to Worcester for 
recruits, since the medical examina- 
tion had made sad havoc in the ranks 
of the "Wellingtons," and general won- 
derment set in over the unhealthy 
state in which they had been doing- 
business up to the date of their fall- 
ing under the observation of these 
argus-e^■ed surgeons. Xot onl\- re- 
cruits but also men who had served a 
long time were dropped, twent_\--tive in 
all being thus rejected. 

Evidently the government was not 
intending to take on possible additions 
to the pension rolls, if weeding out 
weaklings could prevent. However, on 
subsequent examinations many of the 
men at first rejected were accepted. 
Regular police duty starts this day, 
the 8th Regiment arrives, and a rain}' 
evening renders the big camp-fire all 
the more agreeable to those who seek 
its consolations. The daih" or nightK- 
fire in the Company streets 1)ecame a 
prominent feature of cam]) life and, 
naturally, rivalry arose as to who 
should have the highest pile and the 
most brilliant flame. It was through 
ambition in this direction that a lad in 
another eom]ian\- fell from his tower- 
ing col)piIe of four-foot wDod. and on 



aceoiml of his consei|nent broken leg 
lailed to acconipaiu his comrades to 
Cuba. 

The first detail for gu.-ird dut\ from 
the "W ellingtons" comes on tiie 6th, 
and includes H. .A.. Coates, C. M. Have, 
F. H. Hakanson, .\. W. I'ratt, A.'V.. 
Xewton and W. ( ). P.achelor, the last 
three lieing for lirigade duty. The 
nundjcr of men in the Com])any is 
fifty-eight, and drills are in evidence ; 
also the rain, which, like the poor, 
seems ever present. The 6lh Regiment 
appears in camp for the first time, 
(jueer items crop out at the examina- 
tions and enlistments. When (1. W. 
Hodgins was asked the name of his 
nearest friend or that of the ]ierson to 
be notified of his death or illness, he 
replied that that was a very reasonable 
question, for he had no ex]iectation of 
returning. ( )f course light was made 
of his api)rehensions. InU the soldier's 
premonitions were correct, since he 
died on his way home and his body re- 
cei\ed ocean I)urial. The week ended 
with the recejjtion of twenty-two re- 
cruits, of whom twenty ]jassed the 
physical examination, so closelv had 
the CajJtain looked over the array of 
militant humanity in his i|Uest for ad- 
ditions to his Company. 

Sunday, the 8th, beheld the first re- 
ligious services, these being held in the 
mess-hall, and Chaplain Wellwood 
])reaclie(l. It was a cold, blustering 
day, and e\ ery one had a hard time to 
maintain an\thing like bodily comfort. 
Com]iany K was the first to be mus- 
tered into the United States service, 
and the other companies are anxiouslv 
awaiting their turn. Captain Holden 
of the '"Wellingtons" is ( )fiicer-of-the- 
day. The yth day of May was the 
one on which, just in the edge of the 
exening. C'ompany H took the oath of 
fidelity to the government, no one ac- 
cepting Lieutenant Weax'er's proffered 
opportunity to ste)) out, if he ])referred 
that course to taking the obligations. 
The boys liad traveled too far to hack 
out then. There is very little glamour 
in this camp-fire, for, aside from the 
bugles and a single drum corps, there 
is no nuisic. -\11 the melodious ac- 
companiments of annual weeks in cam]) 



16i 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




First Lieut. W. E. Hassam. Second Li 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, COMPANY H, 



are cunittrd in this assemblage for 
actual war. There are visits from 
friends, and the men themselves obtain 
passes home, but, for the most part, 
there is little to interfere with drill and 
guard duty. A good half inch of ice 
greets the early risers on the lOth, 
rather a sorry prelude to their early de- 
parture for Floridian heat, and Gov- 
ernor W'olcott, with a portion of his 
staff, visits the cam]). As an offset to 
the cold, the tent of Captain Pierce of 



( Greenfield catches fire, through the ex- 
plosion of a lamp, and for a time ex- 
citement reigns, though no great dam- 
age was done, excej^t to the Captain's 
mattress. A fire will always gather a 
crowd in ]>eace or war. The nth 
brings Worcester's Mayor and a large 
array of visitors from the Heart of the 
Commonwealth. .\lso the day is sig- 
nificant in that goxernment rations are 
given out for the first time. To many, 
the day was memorable on account of 



WELLIN'OTOX RIFI.IC? 



I(i5 



certain liquid and nicotine gi't^ made 
to the Company by a Boston friend, 
liberal in quantity and qualitv. The 
air is full of rumors of departure, and 
one exceedingly nervous individual, "a 
regular holy jumper." one comrade 
calls him. actually fainted when he 
learned that the regiment was ordered 
away. It was in one of the waiting 
evenings that a bright kid from South 
Framingham made his appearance and 
sang so melodiously that when the 
hat was passed, he secured nearly 
seven dollars from the generous listen- 
ers. A light heart and a free hand 
were ever soldierly characteristics. 

The nth of May burned itself deep 
into the minds of the men, for during 
its hours they had seen the Governor of 
the Commonwealth as the central fig- 
ure in a hollow square, formed by the 
regiment, wdience he delivered to the 
officers their respective commissions, 
and gave to all the men a word of fare- 
well. Always inspiring and impressive, 
Roger Wolcott was never more so than 
when he said "good bye" to the Second 
Massachusetts Infantry. U. S. \'ol- 
unteers. for that is the name devoted 
to the erstwhile Second M. V. J\I. It 
is after 5 p.m. when the line of march 
is taken for the station in South Fra- 
mingham. and every step of the short 
trip is watched by thousands of spec- 
tators. By the side of a smooth-faced 
private of "H" Company marches a 
middle-aged man wearing the bronze 
button of the Grand Army. He is the 
father of the newly enlisted soldier, 
and his heart is sore at the emergency 
which takes his only child from him. 
The proud young soldier had come 
back to Worcester from a good situa- 
tion in Kew York city, when the dec- 
laration of war was heard, and almost 
paralyzed his parents by the statement 
that he had come home to enlist. 
'■^^'hy, Allie," says the father, "we can't 
let you go. You are all we have : vou 
know that your brother Frank is in 
his grave, and it isn't fair to take all 
that your mother and I have." But 
to this the l)oy replies. "How many 
times have you told me of your enlist- 
ing when you were a bo}' of sixteen 
and vour mother was a widow. How 



vou leased ynur mother till she. in her 
loneliness, consented, and when you 
marched away in the ,^6th Massachu- 
setts Volunteers grandma walked all 
the way from camp to the station keep- 
ing her eye on you only. She gave her 
consent, and it is onl_\- fair for \iiu to 
do the same now." "(')h. well," and the 
reply is wrung from the father's heart, 
"if you put it that way 1 su])]jose I 
shall have to consent." So .Mlie en- 
listed and his father is keeping ste]) 
with him to-day for the last time in 
their li\es. since, when next lhe\- meet 
it will be in the fe\er-stricken wards ( if 
Montauk. where the glazed e_\-esofthe 
dying boy hardly recognize the loving 
father as he. in his agony, sees his only 
son going out into the tmknown. an- 
other victim to the perils of war. But 
to-day they heed very little the dmi- 
ments of beholders, who cannot help 
seeing the unusual sight, andtheluncli 
prepared by the mother in her Wor- 
cester home is carried away by her boy ; 
and, as the section bearing the Com- 
pany moves ofT, some one remarks a 
soldier's hand extended from a car- 
window and upon it a father's lips 
linger as they press a farewell kiss. 
The lighted torch was thus i)assed 
along. Everywhere the stories of deeds 
in Rebellion da\s bore similar fruit. 

Bonfires light the way as the regi- 
ment in two sections proceeds south- 
ward to Newport, and it is nearly mid- 
night when, on the steamer Plymouth, 
the soldier boys steam out into the 
Sound on their way to New York, 
where they find themselves at 8 o'clock 
on the morning of the I3tli. ?klany in 
the jjarty are getting eye-openers as 
to the magnitude of the world and 
the possibilities of sound, for steam 
whistles salute them as they round into 
the steamer's station. They are soon 
transferred to the Saratoga, a steamer 
said to have been the very last Amer- 
ican craft to leave the harljor of Ha- 
vana, and it is expected that the trip 
southward will be made in her, not en- 
tirely a pleasing prospect, for the 
depths of her hold are not only hot, 
they are filthy. However, there are good 
times for some of the party, since Major 
Fairbanks is speedily taken away by 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 




Imrst LlELT. W. S, I'KioR. Second LiEi-T. E. B. Fish. 

COMM LSSIOXICI) DFFKKRS, CdMl'A.N'Y H. i8g6. 



his ]iari. 
Holden, 
King, ai 

])()SC 1)\' 

Wlicn ■ 
aii<l tW( 

tlUA wc 

.\. "R. n 
tlicni ; 11 
trans|K ir 
crowds 



lU^ iM lircakfast, ami (.■ai)taiii threw tn them all si>rts of fruit and, hy 
with Privates 1. W. and j. L. mean^ . if an improvised trolley, nian- 
e carried off fo"r a sinnlar"pm'- ^it^cd to send o\er Hasks of tire-water, 
relatives and schoolmates. thus enahlins' thirsty soldiers to moi-e 
Lieutenant-colonel Shumway easily while away the hours. Water is 
(if his captains went ashore, scarce, making other liquids all the 
re met l)v W. ( ). (.liA's, a d. mcire acceptable. ( ine side of an epi- 

scide is told hy "H" men with great 
glee, to the eft'ect that in the afternoon 
a man came near the Saratoga in a 
rowlioat asking for Lieutenant Green 



lan. who in^i^ted i m dining 

ire the men almard the 

c.lly neglected, fur the 

their enthusiasm 



;isii.ir( 



WELLIXC.TOX RIFLK: 



COMPANY H. 



1(17 



(if the 71st Xrw York, sayiiij^- that he 
had a packai^c fur him. To these rogu- 
ish fellows it seemed nothing amiss 
to proclaim themselves friends of tlie 
Lieutenant and their willingness to de- 
liver the package as directed. They 
took good care of the package, which 
abounded in the best of cigars and to- 
bacco, but just how Lieutenant (ireen 
regarded the ruse no chronicler has 
told. At nightfall the transjxirt moved 
up the stream to the vicinit\- of the 
statue of Liberty Enlightening the 
World and there awaited the morning. 
There was no regret when it was 
learned that the trip southward was to 
be continued liy rail, and there was joy 
instead of grief when from Jerse}' l"ity, 
in three sections, each man having a 
seat to himself, the Second L". S. \'ol- 
unteers starter for Dixie, leaving, it 
is said, disconsolate two self-styled 
Massachusetts girls, who proclaimed 
their willingness to kiss the whole 
regiment. ( )ur boys ne\'er knew how 
it happened, but they steamed away, 
leaving the "ist Xew York in their 
cars, where they had been for a large 
part of the day. The Secon<l came to 
the landing late, boarded the cars at 
once and started. Again the last were 
first. 

As often happens when armies 
move, there is lacking of food, and 
stomachs are calling loudly long before 
sandwiches and coffee appear, and one 
clamorous fellow shouts : "Do they 
think cigarettes and newspapers proper 
food for starving soldiers?" The ver- 
satility of the men of the Second is evi- 
dent in the pulling of an aching tooth 
bv a dentist officer, the painting of a 
letter box and the lettering of the car 
l)v a private with deftness of brush. 
The eyes of the soldiers are sealed as 
they pass through historic scenes, and 
it is early morning when their trains 
draw into Washington and they ha\e 
a chance to stretch their legs ami, 
in the hardby troughs prepared for 
watering stock, perform their ablu- 
tions, an op]K3rtunity that they are not 
slow to improve. It is a merry hour 
for the boys and a busy one for huck- 
sters of ail kinds, for these travelers 
are hungry ; it is near breakfast time, 



and if N'ankee tricks are occasionally 
pla\ eil on the peii]ile who liave goods 
to sell, it is sinipK- doing just as the 
f;Uhers did more than a generation 
before. 

|{\er\- mile iif the trip nn the I5lh 
\v;is o\er and through classic territory, 
for from the Long liridge in Washing- 
ton till the night absorlied them in the 
Carolinas, the\- were i)assing over soil 
on which soldiers of tin- l\evoluti<in 
had struggled and later ones of Re- 
bellion days had fought fur four years, 
testing whether the republic shoidd 
live. Fortunately C'olonel Clark, Lieu- 
tenant-colonel Shumway ami Major 
Whipple had been p.articipanls in the 
later war. and the\ were able and will- 
ing to point out the interesting jioints 
as the trains sped along. Naturally 
they had most interested auditors 
whenever they chose to instruct, ."^till 
it must be remembered that these 
xdung men were not out on a strictly 
iiistorical excursion excejit as they 
were themselves makers of history, so 
it must not be wondered at if the fun 
and frolic incident to the congregating 
of several hundred men with the 
major ])art of their lives before them 
had their full course, h'or instance, 
when a hea\y grade develo])ed the fact 
that the train was too much for one 
engine and, through the doubling up 
necessary, the 3d P.attalion's train was 
stalled ior an hour, what more natural 
than that the boys should go swim- 
ming, particularly as the day was 
warm and Old Potomac close at hand? 
Tlien. was there ever a boy who could 
forego the opportunity to make uncom- 
fortable the fellow whom they caught 
disrobed? In this case, though (J — r 
(lid not find his uniform on the banks 
where he deptisited it. he did find it 
nicelv preserved for him on the train, 
while the "bare" show of which he 
was the principal performer was ex- 
tremelx' edifying to the beholders, and 
when, later, the same active fellow had 
a side-hill skirmish line all to himself, 
he drew applause that was deafening. 

The stops for engine needs were oc- 
casions of great enjoyment to all the 
men. who were on hand to greet the 
[jopulace. which seemed able to rally 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPAXISII WAR 



in i^rcat nuinlicrs from the most 
sparsely settleil regions, ami, black rir 
white, particularly if of the gentler 
sex, they were the objects i>f cavalier 
attention by the lads in blue. Flowers 
of every description were lavished 
upon the boys, roses by the barrel 
found their way on board the train, and 
some of the soldiers for weeks after- 
ward had their hands full answering 
letters that came pouring in thr<nigh 
the souvenir hardtack which, bearing 
their names and addresses, they had 
given to the girls along the way. Again 
these boys of a later date were only 
repeating what their fathers did nearly 
forty years before. As the journey 
progresses southward, the soldiers 
note a gradual increase in temperature 
and a decided lengthening of the 
snouts of swine, which everywhere in 
the South apparently run at large, till 
they, with that sense of the titness of 
things characteristic of Massachusetts 



pcdple. denominate them "ant-eaters." 
a name whose appropriateness no one 
who has seen a southern "raz(jr-back" 
will cpiestion for one moment. Some 
specimens were caught and taken 
along, and it is on recor<l that Captain 
H. of the "Wellingtons" ran down 
one of the swiftest of the porcine 
racers and carried him aboard, but his 
tender heart relenting, piggy was re- 
leased before the train started. 

At Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 
there was a pleasing episode in the ap- 
pearance of Annie Tillery, a miss of 
twelve summers, who in a graceful 
manner presented the headquarters 
officers with a beautiful bouquet of 
flowers, with her best wishes for the 
success of "the soldiers of Massachu- 
setts." Outside there was a large dele- 
gation of citizens carrying a flag and 
making the welkin ring with cheers 
for the Old Bay State and the Second 
Reuiment. However, the cheers of the 




' C. H. Claflin. C. II. Holden. C. E. Monroe. S 
XOX. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. COMPANY 



WELLIXGTOX RIFLES. CO.MI'A.N^- 



1611 



nati\-cs were nut so imich cif the 
"Inirrah" variety as they were of that 
old-fashioned rebel yell that manv 
a veteran recalls, and Colonels Clark 
and Shumway were not slow to indi- 
cate their recollection of times when 
they heard it in combats fierce. One 
tall, lank fellow with a big, gray 
mustache and an imperial, giving an 
expressive look, asked if any one there 
had any remembrance of hearing that 
sort of a cheer before. "I believe I 
have." said Colonel Shumway, "and if 
I am not mistaken you are one of the 
fellows we were looking for then." "I 
think you speak the truth, friend," said 
the ex-Johnny, "and if my memorv 
serves me right I believe we captured 
you." And that is just what happened, 
for Colonel Shumway was taken pris- 
oner during the Civil \\'ar and was 
locked up at Florence, not so very far 
from where this coUoquv took place. 
The younger men cheered heartily as 
the two veterans grasped hands across 
the chasm whicli the events of the 
Spanish War were doing much to 
close. 

The verdancy of sharp Xew Eng- 
landers i. e., a few of them, was well 
exemplified when at one of the stations 
Captain Holden secured five crisp, 
new, unfolded one-dollar bills for his 
fiver, which had proven too large for 
use along the way. When he exhibited 
them he was greeted with a simul- 
taneous exclamation. "\\'here tlid you 
get them?" and when he replied that 
a fellow arcnmd the corner was giving 
them away there was a hegira of im- 
pecunious "\\'ellingtons" that well- 
nigh empted the car. How much they 
got when they found the "fellow" the)- 
never told. It was while riding 
through this land, not over-attractive 
to northern eyes, that a lady of south- 
ern blood and uncertain age expatiated 
on the beauties of the country and in 
stilted terms wanted the young men to 
note how "beautiful" everything was. 
a word which caused the lads to think 
that appreciation must have lieen left 
out of their composition, or their 
standard of beauty differed essentiall}- 
from that in vogue in the "Ca'linas." 



.^a\annali, Cienrgia. ilawns u]icin the 
tired travelers early on the lOth. and 
one reliable chronicler records the sight 
of an alligator eight feet long, and 
there was no suspicion of alcoholic ex- 
pansion about the writer cither. The 
day's experiences did not vary es- 
sentially from those of the 15th; more 
pigs were stolen, pies of nondescript 
variety were bought or appropriated, 
and in a spirit of mischief certain 
pranks were played which, under other 
circumstances, would have brought 
out some of the shooting-irons still 
preserved in the fiery land. For in- 
stance, in one place hors'es were un- 
hitched from the vehicles, bells were 
rung, ami as one writer expressed it, 
"The d — 1 was raised generally." 

In another case, where the boys had 
run oft' with two boxes of cigars and 
the saloon-keeper complained. Major 
Fairbanks settled for the damages, 
unwilling that his command should lie 
under the imputation of taking w'hat 
did not belong to it. Never was there 
a better illustration of the truth of the 
old maxim: '"Satan finds plenty of 
mischief for idle hands to do." 

This journey southward of nearly 
five (lavs' durati<.in had its ending very 
earlv on the 17th. when the train was 
left on a siding at Lakeland. Florida. 
The arrival was of no consequence to 
the i)assengers till, after sunrise, there 
came the march through deep sand to 
the borders of Lake Morton, wdiere 
cam]) was pitched, the y\ liattalion 
finding itself at the left of the line. .Vp- 
parentlv the place chosen was that used 
for ])icnic occasions and was as good 
as the entire region afforded. Evident- 
Iv the troops had been sent to Florida, 
that they might, in a measure, become 
acclimatized before es.saying the Cuban 
campaign in the very height of sum- 
mer's heat. The pine trees with their 
tnmks branchless for thirty or forty 
feet, excited the admiration of the men, 
and long streamers of moss pendant, 
in no way lessened their appreciation. 
\\ bile Captain Barrett of the Guards 
is the first Officer-of-the-day, Lieuten- 
ant Gray of the "W^ellingtons" is the 



170 



W'dRCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



first < )fficcr-of-tlK'-L;nanl in the new 
cain|). t(i be knuwn as L'anip Alassa- 
cluisetts. 

.Men of the SeciMiil fmind the vicinity 
considerably stirred up < in account of a 
shootinsj affair whieii hail jnst ha|;>- 
pened. The loth L'. S. C'a\alry. a 
colored organization, had arri\ed the 
da}' before, and a meml)er had asked 
tci be ser\-e(l with a drink of soda-water 
in tlie tiiwn. To this request came the 
rejdy : "We don't sell anything" to 



learned by oliser\-ation that the colored 
troo])s were nut, on the whole, any 
worse citizens than the white and that 
they were just as good customers. They 
commenced to treat them accordingly." 
The nearly two weeks' stay in this 
place was |iroductive of improvement 
in drill and, above all. of that indefin- 
able something which distinguishes 
work from |ila}-. ( )n the i8th came 
the first (listriliution of government 
rations, and with the same came the 




O. L. Fa( 
F. M. Hi 



W. F. Hooker. 
F. H. Krebs, Jr 



damned niggt'rN." \\ hereupon the sol- 
dier drew a |iistol and in the alterca- 
tion which followed an imoffendingbx- 
stander was siiot. .\t any other time 
than when armed black men were in 
the majority, there would have been a 
lynching, but the conditions were not 
favorable just there and then. Captain 
Bigelow of the loth, himself a \Vest- 
Pointer, conmienting on the affair, 
says: "Little by little the ]ieople 



natural craxing for the good things of 
home. ne\'er so thoroughly appreciated 
as at this moment, all being certain 
that on reaching home again there 
would be no more complaints about 
food and cooking. We never know 
how we reall\- look till others see us, 
and liurns' wish, expressed in verse: 

"I ) wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us 
To see oursels as others see us!" 



\VKl.l.I\<ri()X RIFLES, CDMPAXY 11. 



171 



had a iwuK fiilfillni nt in tlie case of 
the Second, fi)r Captain r>i,i;"eli i\v of the 
loth Cavalry writes: "We were 
joined by the 71st Xew York and the 
Second Massachusetts. The men 
looked, and dovdatless were, youniier 
than the regulars. They were of lisjht- 
er weig'ht, and comparatively pale look- 
ing. Thev took hold of their drill with 
a will, and I -believe attained a high 
degree of proficiency in it, but the^• did 
not seem to know or learn much a1)out 
laying out and taking care ni a cam]). 
When I rode through their camp I was 
struck by the closeness of their tents 
to one another, the company streets 
seemeil narrnw, and the ofScers' tents 
not far enough from the men's. In 
every direction I saw old newspapers, 
tin cans, cast-oiif clothing, and other 
rubbish. It is hardly an exaggeration 
to say that there was more dirt in one 
of their company tents than in our 
whole camp. 1 understan<l that the 
commanding ot^cers of these regi- 
ments were allowed to choose the sites 
for their camps. If that was the case, 
they might perhaps have done well to 
have fixed their choice upon points 
close to the camps of the regulars, 
which would ha\e ser\ed as object 
lessons to them."' 

The foregoing criticism expresses 
most excellently the great difference 
between men to whom soldiering is bus- 
iness and those to whom it comes as a 
variation in their course of life. The 
boys of the Second were anxious to get 
all they could in the way of drill, that 
they might the better assail the Span- 
iard, and they gave the least thought 
possible to mere "slicking up." which, 
at the best, the most of them had 
always thought to be women's work. 
However, there were observers who 
said that our Massachusetts men ap- 
proached nearest the regulars in their 
drill and general proficiency, and Cap- 
tain Arthur H. Lee, a rei)resentative 
British officer, considered the men the 
largest soldiers he had e\'er seen. It 
is just possible.also, that Captain llige- 
low was not in the Second's camp 
when he made his observations. The 
boys themselves say that the comment 
is unjust, so far as their regiment is 



Concerned, for their li\es were made 
wear}' through the eternal "i)icking 
u])," ever in order. There was .mother 
organization in his list. Tiu-n. too, 
the Massachusetts lads s;iy th;il the 
regulars were not immaculate; their 
camps were littered, and their im-n, 
too, often drunken. 

As to comparisons between branches 
of the service and regiments from dif- 
ferent states, the following, condensed 
from observations of Richard Har<ling 
n.i\ is, will doubtless interest man\- : 
"Tlie first two regiments of volunteers 
to arrive at Lakeland, which lies an 
hour's ride farther back from Tampa, 
were the 71st New York and the Sec- 
ond Massachusetts. They made an 
interesting contrast. The Xew York 
men were city-bred : they had the 
cockney's puzzled contempt for the 
country. Their nerves had been edged 
1)\' the incessant jangle of cable cars 
and the rush and strain of elevated 
trains. Their palates had been fed on 
Sun<la\- papers and ^^'all Street tick- 
ers; their joys were those of the roof- 
gardens. Coney Island and the polo 
grounds. The Massachusetts men. on 
the other hand, were from the small 
towns in the western half of .Massa- 
chusetts; they were farmers' sons and 
salesmen in country stores, some of 
them were country lawyers, and many 
of them worked in the mills. They 
took to the trees and lakes' contented- 
Iv ; their nerves did not jerk and twitch 
at the enforced waiting; they had not 
been so highly fed with excitement as 
the Xew York boys: they did not miss 
the ru-h and hurry of I'.roadway. Their 
desires were curiously in character. 
( )ne of them wanted to see a stone 
fence again 'before he was shot,' and 
another 'wanted to drink water from 
a well again out of a bucket." He shut 
his eves and sucked in his lips at the 
recollection. The others all nodded 
gravelv ; they all knew they had drunk 
out of wooden buckets. The Xew York 
men knew nothing of stone walls. 
Thev made jokes of their discomforts, 
and added others from Weber and 
Fields, and their similes showed that 
thev had worked, when at home, in the 
law courts, the city hospitals and in 



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WOKCESTEK IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



the (le]iartiiK'iit stores. They were 
more ner\ous, restless ami ari^unien- 
tati\-e than the New England men, and 
the\". at that distanee. held the Span- 
iard in fine contempt. The}" 'wouldn't 
do a thing' to him.' thev said. .\nd 
later they certainly ke])t their word. 
The Massachusetts men were more 
modest. 1 told them that the New 
^'ork men were getting up athletic 
sports, ami running races between the 
athletes of the different companies. 
'( )h, well," said (.me of the Xew Eng- 
land men, 'wdien they finil out who is 
their fastest runner, I'll challenge him 
to run away from the first Spaniard we 



for heans,' shouted a Massachusetts 
\varrior. 'thev don't give }ou enough 
to fill a talilesi)Oon.' " 

In the definite arrangements for 
cam|)ing. II. A. Alower was put in as 

cook, with ^^■. H. ^^■ood and ^^^ g. 

Adams assistants, and, with the ex- 
ception of a lack of variety, the fare 
was good ; as one man wrote home 
they had two pieces of bacon, a potato 
and cofifee for breakfast ; for dinner the 
same, less the potato, while for sup- 
]3er they had beans and coiTee, al- 
ways accompanied by all the hardtack 
that any one cared for. ISy common 
consent, l^'irst Sergeant Charles E. 




^^ 



"-:> 





^•l;oK CITY. 



see. I'll bet I be;it him liy a mile.' ll 
is a good sign ulu-n a regiment m;d<es 
jokes at the e.\])ense of its courage. It 
is likely to be most \ni])leasant when 
the fighting begins. It seemecl a fact 
almost too good to be true thai the 
great complaint of the Xew \"iirk men 
was the superabundance i if beans 
served out to them, .-md that the first 
complaint of the sons of Massachusetts 
was that the\ had not received beans 
enough. 'IJeansfor breakfast, beans 
for lunch, beans for dinner — t 'ell!' 
growled the New Yorkers. 'And as 



Monroe was maile the weather re- 
corder, and sometimes the mercury in 
his lent ro>e i)rett_\' high. tlK.iugh he 
finds no difficult\' in dining there with 
the record of 107 degrees as he eats 
his dinner. ( )ne of the other sergeants 
had great difficulty in getting enough 
to satisf\- his ai)petite. but once at least 
he was com])elle<l to cry. "Hold, 
enough!" on the sixth hehiing of beef 
and potatoes. 

On the 20th Sergeant F. L. \'aughn 
was made regimental commissary ser- 
geant. Nor were the boys in their 



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173 



Lakelaiiil lifo tnrgDtten liy the folks at 
home and. while nearly e\'ery one was 
remembered, perhaps the most nota- 
ble gifts were those sent down by the 
employees of the Barnard. Sumner & 
Putnam Company to their old associ- 
ates. Hakanson and Pratt. It was a 
large receptacle filled w-ith one hun- 
dred pounds of canned goods in great 
variety ; tobacco in all its alluring 
phases, and other things calculated to 
remind the recipients of home and the 
good old times. 

It would be a sorry place that afford- 
ed no (li\ersion whatever, and Lake- 
land is by no means destitute of ways 
of whiling away the time, aside from 
the drills which form a part of every- 
day business. Baby alligators are 
twenty-five cents each, and the boys 
take particular pleasure in sending 
them as presents to their homes, laugh- 
ing to themselves as they fancy the ex- 
pressions there when the ugly rep- 
tiles arrive. Sergeant Young sent two 
scaly fellows, seven inches long, to his 
wife, and for some time they were on 
exhibition in the window of Captain 
Barrett's shoe store. One of them 
lived nearly a year, and both of them, 
after passing through the hands of the 
taxidermist, are retained in the home of 
Sergeant, now Captain, Young. Lieu- 
tenant Gray cheered his folks at home 
by sending there a rattlesnake's skin, 
seven feet long, and having fourteen 
rattles. One boy in his letter home 
complains of the number and variety 
of bugs and all sorts of creeping things. 
He says: "I had not been in camp an 
hour before I had killed two scorpions ;" 
and he is confident that when the old 
home is again reached there will be 
much less complaining than in the 
former times. It W'as here that four 
prominent Company H men acquired 
the well-earned name of "Wear}' 
\\'illies." Work for them had few at- 
tractions. The "Wellingtons" are all 
sociable and, in learning their surround- 
ings, Ouilty, George C. Gilmore and 
Revnolds called on a family which had 
moved down from North Carolina. The 
father, now a staunch L'nion man. had 
been a Confederate soldier. The boys 
got a heart)' welcome, including cake, 



milk and \\hale\er good things the 
honsc afforckMl. The old-time Cray 
and the later Blue liarnioniouslv 
hlcn.led. 

In Comijany annals, it is worthy of 
mention that on the 26th came the 
first dress parade, and on the 27th a 
letter was received from James Logan 
of Worcester containing a check for 
$50. an act quite characteristic of that 
liberal gentleman. This da}- also 
there came from the Worcester Supply 
Company a 4 x 3 camera, which, with 
its set of 100 films, wqs placed in the 
care and keeping of Sergeant Young 
as the one best calculated to use it in 
taking snap-shotson Company proceed- 
ings. The 28th of May brought a 
check for $5 from City Clerk Townc of 
\\'orcester, the same being some sort 
of arrearage due the Company. On 
Sunday, the 29th, Chaplain Wellwood 
conducted religious services and sing- 
ing was furnished by Captain Holden 
of the "\\'ellingtons,'' Captain Allen, 
Sergeant Will Barton and R. H. Pitts 
of the Light Infantry. .\t the services 
Colonel Clark improved the opportu- 
nity to give his boys some excellent 
adxice. Late in the evening of the same 
day the Colonel called his officers to- 
gether for a conference. Five men 
in "H" Company were reported sick, 
and one of them, J. L. King, did not 
return to the Company again for duty. 
Our soldiers are of a social nature and, 
getting acquainted with the neighbor- 
ing people, are surprised to find that 
some of the supposed southern natives 
are really from Connecticut. One ob- 
serving youth wrote home that if he 
were to characterize central Florida, 
he would say it consisted in ''niggers, 
log cabins, hogs, swamps and pine 
trees." It was at Lakeland that the 
great military question as to whether a 
cow should be challenged by a senti- 
nel arose. The guards had been duly 
placed and the orders were to challenge 
anything that attempted to pass, so 
when a poor innocent bovine beast, in 
pursuit of better fare, essayed to pass 
the vigilant guard, he vociferously 
challenged and only failed to fire at the 
advancing animal through the oppor- 
tune arrival of the corporal. To what 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




Eoi'R SCENES i.\ ]:reak:\i; camp, lakeland 



(■ytont llu' man was coniniendaljle or 
.•(.•uMirahlc, the annals do not revt-al. 
< >f tlic sentinel himself, it mioln he 
said thai, when he was present, his 
(■(impany \Nas nut without its I'.ond, 
and that, later, as a ret^nlar. lie w.as 
line <if the men wlm accompanied 
iMmston (Ml the menKirahle adventure 
resuhiu:^ in the capture of ,\guinaldo. 
The rumors of de])arture bore real 
fruit (in the 30th. fur then the reveille 
siiundeil at ihree a.m., ami breakfast 
was eaten h_\ the "W ellin,nt< >ns" at four 
o'clock, \ et all this imdue haste ilid 
not secure their ^oin,^; before afternoon. 
After taking down their tents there 
was plent_\- of time to discuss the prob- 
al)ilities of this re-iment of infantry 
being changed into one of hea\-y ar- 
tillery, witli whiidi the air for some 
dax's had been hea\\. Dame Rumor 
never has so much to do, is ne\er so 
bnsv. ;is when a i)arcel of nieii in uni- 
form hud almost nothing to do. Had 
Some iiiirenious fellow suggested in 



th.' morning that there was a possibil- 
itv of the Second .Massachusetts being 
changed into ca\alry for rapid service 
in Cul:)a, it would have developed into 
.•m order from the War Department be- 
fore night. The heit, moist atmos- 
I here was conducive to rajiid growth. 
< )n reaching Ybor City, the placing of 
the cam]) near that of a hea\_v artillery 
organization gave more weight to the 
al)o\e mentioned rumor. Meanwhile 
regidar infantr\- drills progressed as 
usual. W hile not so well situated as 
the Lakeland cami> in the way of 
sh.ide.thenew place had the advantage 
of a fine snpi)K- of water, coming as it 
did from a lai-ge suiing near l)y. and 
in great abundance. The de|)arture of 
the regiment from Lakeland was made 
notable by the .adoiition of resolutions 
of respect by the citizens, and the go- 
iu,g was amid the enthusiastic cheering 
of the jjcople. The Hay State boys 
li.nl macle a gooil impression. 

The se\'ent\-seveu men and boys 



WELLIXGTOX KIFI.KS, CuMl'AN^' 



75 



wild niailc ui) the Welling;!' ni l\illcs 
were represciitati\'es of many walks nf 
life and of several nationalities. There 
were men whose ancestors came to 
America in the Mayflower, who were 
justh' proud that later forbears fought 
in the Revolution and whosf immedi- 
ate fathers were soldiers in the War of 
the Rebellion. Others ciudd yo no 
further hack in American lineage than 
their parents, who had come to this 
land as a refut;e from oppression in 
their own countries. Indeed, some of 
these vouno; soldiers were not born in 
America. I'here were lads whose ex- 
traction was purel}- Irish: se\eral had 
the names and language that pro- 
claimed a French origin. At least one 
was a child of that far North which 
had sent to these western shores the 
first explorers, far before the day of 
Columbus and his adventurous vessels, 
and the only Italian in the regiment 
hailed from Worcester and Company 
H. So suspicious was every one at 
the onset, the report gained credence 
that DeMarco was a Spanish spy who 
as an American soldier was playing a 
deep part for the enemy. Even Colonel 
Clark admonished Captain Holden to 
"watch him closely." The fellow coun- 
tryman of .\merica's discoverer was 
no spy : on the contrary he was a val- 
uable member of the Company. 

There were just as many indixid- 
ualities as there were men in the Com- 
panv. Though there might be a 
marked similarity in protests and ap- 
proval, there were varieties in their ex- 
pression and, as the days went by. the 
wonderful versatility of the Yankee 
soldier became apparent. These men 
had come from the shop, the store, the 
farm and the professions. ^Many were 
skilled workmen. There were several 
men who could have wired a house for 
electric connections, could make any- 
thing capable of manufacture from 
wood, and others were salesmen of ap- 
proved ability. One boy set himself 
up as regimental barber and did a 
thriving business in camp. His taritt 
was not high — officers free and onl}- J'^ 
cents per month for enlisted men. In 
Cuba it was a matter of pride with him 
that he shaved Ceneral Ludlow one 



day, and the othcer, in his gratitude 
for the genlK- \et thorough manner 
of hi> Work, presented the soldier with 
a Krag rille with all the apjiurte- 
nances. DeMarco was interpreter for 
the regiment, his Italian serving to 
make known the words of the Spanish 
foe. There was a I'.ostoii lawyer who 
had thrown up his briefs that he might 
ha\e a hand in what he considered a 
righteous war. l.indsey was an ex- 
pert cabinet-maker, though by trade 
lie made patterns. He was the falirica- 
tor of the tield desks that became great 
con\'eniences in subse(|uent weeks. 
The great majorit\- of these soldiers 
were wage-earners who had given u]) 
their respective occupations that they 
might have a part in what they deemed 
a nation's eft'ort to right a great wrong. 
Their ]iay was small compared to what 
the\' had earned, but for a time they 
were soldiers from choice, willing to 
bear and endure if thereliy the}- might 
help humanity. 

The last day of the month saw ati 
active lot of soldier lads getting their 
new camp in shape and in exploring 
their surroundings. The orbicular 
oyster, which e\'ery one at some time 
confronts, was undergoing a gradual 
opening. June 1st introduced the men 
of the Second to a real I'lorida rain 
storm, where three inches of water fell 
in an hour. Soldiers waded around in 
water and sand to their ankles, though 
like everything in that porous soil, all 
traces of the storm socin disappeared. 
The "^^'ellingtons" had to omit morn- 
ing drill on account of a late breakfast, 
and at this date no one seems to know 
wli\- the cook failed to gel his i:)ots and 
kettles around on time. .\n afternoon 
battalion drill had to be adjourned on 
account of the rain. On the Jd. there 
were company and squad drills in the 
forenoon, also the school of the sol- 
dier, and at 4 p.m. came battalion drill. 
From the hospital, men return to duty. 
The next day all were obliged to re- 
main in cam]), and drill advanced as 
usual, said drill, in some men's esti- 
mation, being the real end of a sol- 
dier's life. The fourth day brought 
the [lavmaster. and the boys got what 
was coming to them, about fifteen dol- 



176 



WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



lars for L-ach |iri\ato, ami how that 
nione\- Ijunicd in cxcry man's jiocket. 
Passes were o-ranted ami French leave 
was taken till at one time, lo p.m., 
only seventeen men remained in 
camp. It is hardly to be expected that 
all of the pay was sent home : a more 
reasonable conclusion is that a large 
part of it found its way into the tills 
of Tampa traders, who would have 
been glad to see pay-day come oftener. 
General Nelson A. Miles, commander 
of the U. S. A., rode into camp on 
this day and gave fully ten minutes to 
asking questions as to the outfit of the 
men, their condition, etc. ( >ne of the 
pleasant recollections of this camp 
was the appearance, one superlatively 
hot dav, of "I'.iH" Rice, of the Guards, 
having' in tow a wash-tub half full 
of water, in which sailed unrestrained 
four or five half lemons, fr(.)m which 
he essaved to sell first-class "ade." He 
was strong, if his clrink wasn't, and 



the scene itself was better than any 
potable. It was from this camp also 
that the Lieutenant, whose name is 
suggestive of watery depths, with a 
comrade of acpiatic proclivities, with- 
drew and undertook a quiet swim in 
a neighboring pool, but whose natural 
modesty was terribly shocked at see- 
ing a man and two women, all in con- 
ditions natiircUc. likewise bathing 
across the pond. However, as the op- 
posite parties seemed to be in no way 
disturbed at the presence of the 
Yankees, and as the latter thought re- 
treat no part of a true soldier's outfit, 
all continued to swim in the most ami- 
cable manner, but Lieutenant ■ 

never heard the last of his mermaid 
achenture. 

I )n the 3th, "H" Company had a 
chance to do heavy duty through be- 
ing called out to help load certain 
l)ieces of artillery; this, too, though 




J. T. LiNDSEY. 

JOH.N D. Alle; 



H. A. Coat 
H. C. .\mel 



WEI.r.IXCTOX RIFLES. COMPAW 



177 



it was Suiidaw but the arni_\- knows 
very little difference in days. There 
was the celebratinn iif mass for sol- 
diers of the Catholic faith, Init no other 
service. Monday there were com- 
pany drills and the school, while Cap- 
tain Holden finds time to send home 
a cliecrfnl reminder in the shape of a 
small alligator. In the evening- came 
orders to break camp, and at nine i^.m. 
tents were struck, though there was 
nothing to follow but Avaiting. In tlv.- 
evening cartridges had been gi\-en out. 
as though there were danger of an ir- 
ruption of the enemy. Tuesdav. the 
"th. sees the regiment at Tampa Citv, 
but still fated to wait, a condition to 
which soldiers, sooner or later, have 
to become used. There is no camp, 
there is no transport readv, and no 
hotel awaits tired mortalitv. hence rest 
must be sought where it may be found. 
Some find it on Mother Earth. Captain 
Holden and Adjutant Hawkins enjoy 
the hospitality of a lawyer friend, who 
gi\"es them the use of his vacht. which 
lies hard l.)y. and the Springfield man. 
with the reckless adandon bred of war. 
wraps himself in the tablecloth be- 
fore he lies down to pleasant dreams. 
Two "\\'elIingtons" find themselves 
close by a box of lemons as they seek 
repose upon the dock, and if on the 8th 
there is any suspicious prevalence of 
this citric fruit among their fellow sol- 
diers, it must have come from the af- 
finity that the aforesaid box manifested 
for those lying near it. Does any one 
know just why the 2d Massachusetts 
was chosen with the 71st New York 
for service in this campaign along with 
the regulars? Every one expected 
that Roosevelt's regiment would go, 
but our Bay State boys had no such 
powerful sponsor. Perhaps the repu- 
tation of the Old Sixth in the Rebel- 
lion days held over and the quota from 
Massachusetts in this case was soonest 
ready. However, after the aiTair was 
all over a soldier who was near Gen- 
eral Joe Wheeler when the selection of 
volunteer regiments was in hand says 
he heard the General say : "The 2d 
Massachusetts is the finest and manli- 
est regiment of volunteers ever seen, 
and they shall go anyway." Be all 



this as it may. they were chosen and 
possibly the good oi)inion of the ex- 
Confederate settled the cpiestion. and 
the boys are glad to know that the gal- 
lant officer thought so well of them. 

After all. in spite of long waits, 
things were really progressing, and 
finally the Company finds itself on 
the Concho, a vessel in no way re- 
markable for comeliness nor comfort, 
liefore long, these patriotic young 
men who had thought themselves un- 
comfortable on land began to think 
that almost any spot ashore would be 
felicity itself compared to the crowded 
condition of the transport, which al- 
ready had aboard the 25th Colored In- 
fantry and a portion of the 4th. There 
were stores to be loaded, and of this 
work the Company did its part, and 
they had a chance to study the ship- 
ping by which they were surrounded. 
The heat was intense : they had worked 
hard, they had breakfasted early, but 
not till nearly 7 p.m. did they get 
anything in the way of food, save what 
they could buy of the ship's crew. 
When rations did come, though of the 
same old canned beef, coffee and liard- 
tack, they tasted good, for there is no 
sauce like downright hunger. The sun 
sets blood red, and at nightfall the 
boat moves out into the bay for an- 
chorage, perhaps for greater certainty 
of keeping the men on board. Some- 
where between night and morning 
came the alarm described in the story 
of the other companies, and the "Wel- 
lingtons" had to take their portion of 
discomfort in the hold. In this hor- 
rible plight the vessel returns to the 
pier and men gasp for breath. All 
night the search-light beams over the 
bay, and glad are the soldiers when 
morning dawns. There had been little 
opportunity for washing for two davs, 
and some of these cleanly fellows were 
anxious for a chance to rid themselves 
of superfluous Florida matter. One 
innocent landsman, reared among the 
hills of \\'orcester County, undertook 
to free himself by the application of 
sea water along with a plentiful use of 
common hard soap. The trouble he 
had in ridding himself of his sapona- 
ceous coating, those can appreciate who 



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WORCESTER IN THE Sl'ANISH WAR. 



havL- ever undertaken sueh a task. So 
uncertain was everything while the 
transports were receiving their loads, 
many of the biivs plunged into the 
"briny" for a cooling dip. One of 
"H's" sergeants was thus disporting 
himself wdien, quite a way out, he saw 
the Concho in motion. He had no lik- 
ing for being left. It was a clear case 
of "the other side," i. e., outside of 
"Jordan," and the way he pawed the 
waves was a caution, and to the infinite 



loth there is a distribution of Bibles 
to such as need them, and on the nth 
occurs the memorable inspection of 
feet, not to see if they are webbed, but 
for reasons never satisfactorily ren- 
dered. ( )ne jocose fellow averred that 
all who had corns or bunions had to 
take salts, and those w-ho had ingrow- 
ing nails were put down for a dose of 
(|uinine. I'ew escaped one or the other. 
The iJtli brought the transferral to 
the Knickerbocker, a low, lilack craft 




Sergt. C. E. Smith. 
(Now First Lieut.) 
Artificer A. L. I'l'Ri 



EiBST Sergt. C. E. Monroe 



anuisemeut of hi> comrades. Through 
the indescribable filth of the shore, he 
swam up to the dock, only to see the 
transport (piietly returning. Had he 
taken time to examine the final coating 
imparted by the sea, he would have 
found a little of e\'erything. 

The ntxt two days see little \aria- 
tiou in transport life, though t:>n the 



belonging to the Cromwell I^ine, run- 
ning between New York and Xew Or- 
leans, of possibly 1800 tons burden, 
built for passengers and freight. She 
had recently been devoted t(i the carry- 
ing of Italian laborers. The story of 
her thirteen staterooms and other co- 
incidences have already been stated, 
and l'ri\ate Dean of the Light In- 



WELLIXGTO.X RIFLES, COMI'AXV 



17!l 



fantry adds a painted " 13" to the sig- 
nificant array. The next day fnrnished 
more work in the way of exchanging 
stores, and the ist Battalion of the 
Second came on board. 

SXOW T.AI.L. 

Probably there is no member of the 
Second who does not recall the cnal 
black face of "Snowball," wdio through 
the vicissitudes of war had become a 
popular member of the organization, 
although his enlistment was bv no 
means regular. The story as told in 
the Boston Herald is as follows, though 
the writer evidiently drew consider- 
ably on his imagination : "It was here 
(Washington) the little black face of 
'Snowball' appeared in his rags and 
tatters and said to a member of Com- 
pany H, 'Say, boss, yo' doan wanter 
tak' 'er small cullud boy to Cuba wid 
yo', does yo'?' His large mouth and 
black eyes won him a place in the ranks 
of Company H, and a nondescript uni- 
form, furnished by popular subscrip- 
tion, soon changc'd the tattered urchin 
into a comical looking soldier. Snow- 
ball did go to Cuba and stuck to the 
Second through thick and thin, lead- 
ing a checkered life. He had his good 
traits as well as bad." 

Captain Holden sa\-s his introduc- 
tion to the regiment was when they 
were getting aboard the transport, and 
attracted by his wistful look and evi- 
dent desire to go with the men, the 
Captain exclaimed "Jump on." and 
jump he did, just as the gang ])lank 
was drawn on. He had come from 
Washington in company with a bat- 
tery of artillery, but for some reason 
his affections for the big guns had 
cooled and he was quite fancy free 
when he fixed his attentions on the 
boys from Massachusetts, and there- 
after there was no division of his re- 
gard. He was as true, as he could be 
to anything, to the soldiers from the 
I5ay State. He had a name reserved 
for special occasions, viz., James Den- 
nis Sargent, but for ordinary' occasions 
he was just "Snowball," of course thus 
yclept through the law of contraries. 
He thought he was about si.xteen vears 



old, and th;il was doublless very near 
the truth. His appearance was artless- 
ness itself; he looked the very picture 
of innocence, and his worse detractor 
would aver that he ne\-er stole any- 
thing that was nailed down, but nature 
made him with such a way of looking 
out for himself he seldom went hun- 




gry, and if he. wanted anything he had 
a remarkable manner of reaching for 
it. He was as brave as Toussaint and 
as tireless as Sisyphus. He was thor- 
oughly immune, so far as anj- of the 
Cuban ailments were concerned, and 
his cheerful face was a source of much 
comfort to the l)oys themselves, 
though his habits of apjiropriation and 
other peculiarities sometimes drew 
upon himself merited and condign 
punishment. He came home with the 
regiment, but by that time he had be- 
come as much a child of the Second as 
of the Company ; he had his career 
written up in many papers of the State, 
and "Snowball" divided honors with 
commissioned officers in his popular- 
ity. Since those days he has sampled 
reformatories and the regular armv, 
each, it is hoped, contributing to his 
good. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




The 14th lias a prominent place in 
the history of the Com])any and Regi- 
ment, for on this day, after assiduous 
labor in getting supplies aboard, after 
just failing to crush the sides of a com- 
panion steamer, and after many starts 
and stops, at last thv vessel moved 
down the bay and anchored near Eg- 
inont Kev. Though the sea is wide as 
compared with the space occu])ied by 
ships, }-et they manage tn enllide at 
times, and some of the men ha\'e not 
entirely gotten over laughing at the 
e\'ident fright of one of their field of- 
ficers when there was danger of colli- 
sion with a nearby vessel, though it 
must be rememljered that John, Duke 
of Marlborough, duughty >(..ldier that 
he was, would tk^e in terror foim the 
cry of a cat. It is barely possible that 
our officer did not like deej) water; he 
was not a Liapti^t. 

( )f the scarcity of rations, of the sea- 
sickness, drills, inspections, baths and 
the prinei])al incidents of this expedi- 
tion, the slor}- has Ijeen told in the re- 
citals of the '"( luards" and the 'Light 
Infantry," though the "Wellingtons" 
tell of the quarrels among the black 
soldiers and of the connnotion on the 
17th, when the ship's crew drove over- 
board, after a prolonged chase, a black 
cat which some of the soldiers had 
brought aboard as their mascot. As 
long as superstition holds sway among 
sailors, and it seems interminable, 
there will be no tolerance among them 
of a black cat. They may never have 
heard of I'oe's storv of the animal of 
th;it color, nor vet have dwelt on the 
Scri|)tural story of |onah when he took 



his roundabout way to Nineveh, yet 
all the same to them black cats will 
always he Jonahs. As to their coni- 
f^agiioiis dc z'oyagc, the colored 25th 
Regulars, the "Wellingtons" could not 
sav too much in their praise. Though 
they gambled fiir high stakes and 
sometimes quarreled fiercely among 
themselves, they were the soul of 
politeness to their white comrades, 
paragons of personal neatness and 
cleanliness, and so honest that the boys 
of the Second had no fear of leaving 
exposed their choicest possessions. 
Nothing was ever disturbed. To the 
end of the trip it was a daily delight 
to see the orderlv sergeants of the 
-25th line up their men for roll-call and 
to note the precision with which the 
names were called, though there was 
not a scrap of paper in sight. The Or- 
derly had his names in his head. 

As the trip advances iiial dc mcr 
lessens ;m(l an increased demand for 
fo(-)d is heard, and it is loud at times. 
( )n the [8th a careful Yankee observes 
that he sets his watch ahead one hour, 
for again he is within the limits of the 
seventy-fifth degree range, and Tampa 
must have been just west of it. The 
sight of land, with speculations as to 
just what ])art of Cuba is seen, excites 
the keenest interest, and when at last 
the eastern end of the Island is rounded 
and far-famed Santiago is neared, there 
is as much desire to leave the vessel 
as there was a week before to embark. 
They hear the cannonading and, obe- 
dient to orders, they stand out to sea 
at nightfall, seeing on the 22d the land- 
ing of a part of the regiment, all the 



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181 



time grnwint;- iik ire and m>vv luiiit;r\- 
and less and less resigned to the prison 
ship. Dnrino- the last night aboard 
there was a raid made on the vessel's 
ice-box, and the officers of the ship 
were vociferous in their expressions of 
rage thereat. It was stated that everv 
man was to be searched as he went ofi', 
but seemingly all this was forgotten 
when the men finally disembarked, and 
soldiers marched by red-handed : at 
least, they bore oflf their plunder open- 
h^ and no notice was taken of them. 
Justice alwa3"S did have a reputation 
for blindness. Yet even at this late 
date all cannot land, for Sergeant 
Vaughn with Privates Jones and Shedd 
are detailed to remain on board 
and see to the proper care of the knap- 
sacks, which are not carried of?, the 
expectation being that the vessel would 
move along the coast and render the 
remainder of the cargo at another land- 
ing, but weeks really passed before 
the baggage was seen again. 

The "Wellingtons" joined in the ac- 
claim of all who beheld when, late on 
the afternoon of the 22d. the Starry 
Flag went up on Mount Losiltires, 
west of the landing place. It is ten 
o'clock a.m. of the 23d when the 
"Wellingtons" reach land, and start at 
once to catch up with those who have 
gone before. The blue uniforms of the 
men are left on the Knickerbocker, 
along with their knapsacks, from which 
they were to be parted a number of 
weeks, their garb during the actual 
service on the Island consisting: of the 



brciwn ean\-as. not unlikr llic "but- 
ternut" clothes worn by ihe Confed- 
erates in Rebellion days. Xot onlv 
was it more comfortaljle, it was also 
almost an ideal color for assimilation 
with the surroundings. With his usual 

luck, B d retained his blue clothes, 

and was a marked man. 

The planting of the American tlag 
on the summit of a hill to the eastward 
of the landing has been imentioned 
before. A condensed account of the 
affair as given by a participant is not 
amiss here. The storv is told bv Ed- 
ward Marshall, correspondent of the 
New York Journal, in his "History of 
the Rough Riders": 

"Over at the right of Daiquiri a 
sugar-loaf mountain rose sheer a thou- 
sand feet. It was called Mount Losil- 
tires. On the very summit of this 
queerlv shaped hill was a block-house. 
During the morning bombardment, it 
had been a shining mark, but appar- 
ently had escaped unscathed. There 
never was a harder climb than the one 
by which I reached the summit of 
Mount Losiltires. Finally, however. I 
reached the top. The sun was blister- 
ing hot and the climb had exhausted 
me. I sat down to get my wind. While 
I was sitting there. Surgeon La i\Iotte. 
Color-sergeant Wright and Trumpeter 
riatt of the Rough Riders came up by 
another and an easier route. They had 
with them the flag wliich had been 
presented to Captain McClintock's 
troop by the ladies of I'hoeni.x, Ari- 
zona. It was a beautiful silk tlag, and 




C0.MPANY H IN THE Tf 



DeMarco a.\d tue Cue 



182 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



it is now a tlag witli a histurv. A cmi- 
sultatiun followed as to how to raise 
the flag. There were no lanyards on the 
weather-beaten pole left by the Span- 
iards. Just at this moment a sailor 
came climljing o\er the edge (if the hill. 
I have forgotten his name. I wish I 
had it. The Rough Riders, after in- 
vestigating the interior of the block- 
house, funnel a ladder long enough to 
reach u|) to the tiny cupola above the 
structure. Wright and I'latt had found 



Rough Ixiders, staff and all, to the lit- 
tle timber which stuck from the peak 
of the l)lock-honse. The little bay in 
which the transports were anchored 
lav like a sheet of sih-er in front of us. 
The ships looked like t(,)y ships from 
our point of vantage, and our soldiers 
looked like toy soldiers. The flag had 
been waving in the breeze perhaps a 
minute before these toy soldiers and 
the men on those toy ships got sight 
of it. And when t'hev did, bedlam 




C. M. FULI-ER. 

J. K. Qui LTV, 



Dexter Mi 
.\. E. .Newt. 



this ladder and presently Rlatt ;ip- 
peared on his knees nw llie hot, slip- 
])ery tin imif. lie remained on his 
knees not more lh;m five consecutive 
seconds. The roof was too steep and 
I'latt came to grief willi great ra])idity. 
It wa>- here thai the sailnr came to our 
relief. Like a cat he crept out on the 
slippery roof. .\ moment later he rose 
and securelv lashed the flag: of the 



Ijroke loose. Every steam wdiistle on 
the warships screamed its loudest, 
e\-ery soldier in the invading thousands 
yelled his hoarsest, and the Cubans, 
])roud of the new Lee rifles which had 
been distributed among them by the 
navy, fired them oft in greeting vol- 
leys to the Red. White and Blue which 
fluttered brightly at the top of Mount 
Losiltires." 



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183 



It was on this first day's iiuircli that 
the soldiers discovered how dclicirms 
were the contents of a green cocoanut. 
^^'ith its muzzle nicely sliced off and 
the interior stirred, each nut afforded 
nectar fit for the gods. The mango 
had been proclaimed harmful to Amer- 
icans, but even while the admonition 
was ringing in his ears, B — d was seen 
shaking the branches for his favorite 
fruit, and strange to tell mangoes 
didn't seem to harm him. Captain 
Bigelow of the loth Cavalry pro- 
claimed green limes as the choicest of 
all Cuba's products in the fruit line, 
and that he aimed to keep his knap- 
sack well supplied with them all the 
time he was there. Sergeant Monroe 
had been detailed to remain l^ehind 
with a squad of men to look after cer- 
tain belongings of the Company, hence 
he was able to see the country for him- 
self and at his own pace, as he writes 
to his mother weeks afterwards. After 
a march of about five miles he and his 
party went into camp near the ist C 
S. Cavalry, though a short quarter of 
a mile farther would have taken them 
to their (iwn regiment, but the}- did 
not know this till the next morning. 
"The first day we went through cocoa- 
nut groves and we had milk and nuts 
to burn." xA.ll the boys had their first 
night of getting acquainted with land- 
crabs, and so disturbing an element 
were thev that many found very little 
sleeii. The hmches of that first day 
were made almost luxuricnis l)v the re- 




CuBANS Taking Their Ease. 



siihs of tiie icebox-raid of the night 
before, and it was a good thing to get 
tliese comforts when ])ossible, for 
there were straits of Innigcr l^efore 
them. 

The morning of JM-ida}'. the J4th, 
was utilized by the ■'l)oys" in finding 
out just where they were, in l)eholding 
the landing of the cavalry horses, in 
delightful bathing in the ocean, and in 
getting their share of enjoyment from 
the wine so thoughtfully left by the 
enemy. Perhaps to their unacclima- 
tized sx'stems the latter find had bet- 
ter remained unfound. Private Mower, 
that he might the more easily hasten 
his mission, wore down to the landing 
Lieutenant Fish's coat, with its straps. 
Evidently he made the most of his op- 
portunity, for it was not long before 
some of the regulars were making in- 
quiries about "Lieutenant" Mower. 
Clothing that had been worn during 
the voyage had a little wash and each 
lad had to set up his own cookshop. 
Four days' rations were given out, and, 
had the men been more experienced, 
they had combined to get more com- 
fort from them than tliey really did. 
When the alarm for Las ( iuasimas 
fight called them from their bivouac, 
they marched away carrying their 
provisions in all sorts of wa\-s. Pri- 
vate Hodgins had the most of his 
hardtack strung on a string, and the 
streamer of 'tack was suspended from 
his bavonet as he threaded the Cuban 
mazes. Private Gleason. very likely 
with nianv others as well, carried his 
gallon can of tomatoes mider his arm 
until, wearied of tlie task, he was 
ol)liged tt) throw it away. Witli no 
l)ail for holding, the can was not de- 
signed for transportation thus, and the 
absnrditv of the plan should have oc- 
curred to the authorities who origi- 
nated the idea. As a specific for too 
much liacon or salt pork the fresh 
ration of canned tomatoes was excel- 
lent, but the application of the provi- 
sion, that was quite another matter. 
Xor was it food for the stomach alone 
that some of the boys carried. Brain 
sustainers also were borne. It was 
here that Gendron indicated his liter- 
ary promptings by sweating under the 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



Inirden of a lii.L;' S]ianish dictiimary 
which he had fmiiid in Sibmu'v. He 
aimed to make his Spanish first-class. 

As to the merits or demerits of the 
eng-ag-ement at Las Guasimas on Fri- 
day, the 24th, it is no part of this story 
to'dilate. War critics are yet wrang- 
hng as to who ordered the attack, but 
allthat is definitely known is that the 
Rough Riders, with certain portions of 
regular tnjoi^s, suffered severely in 
trying to dri\e the enemy h-om his 



of their time, when the "assembly" 
called the men to action. The alacrity 
with which the negro soldiers grabbed 
their clothes and rushed naked from 
the bath to their camps will ever be re- 
membered bv those who saw the move- 
ment, and the same call, sounded by 
Randall of the "Wellingtons," pro- 
duced a similar though perhaps not so 
immediate an effect. Of what the 
Company saw and did, let the men 
themselves discourse. Allie Kimball. 




position on what General \\ heeler 
chose to consider the road tnward ."San- 
tiago. The .Second Massachusetts ha])- 
pened to 1)e near, and with ollierh went 
to ihe rescue. It was well towards the 
middle of the afternoon when the hur- 
ried arrival of a messenger from the 
fight found the soldiers in all sorts of 
occupations. They were bathing, cook- 
ing, washing, and making the best 



■ on the Jijth. says: "You can 
had a good, heavy load (refer- 
the burdens each man had to 
, it was a \ery pleasant march 
t. V,y the way, the country 
through which we have had to march 
has been fine. It is rather hilly, but 
there is plenty of shade and fairly good 
walking. We passed the ist and loth 
Cavalry as they were holding burial 



wrUm 
bet w. 
ring t 
carr>' ) 
at fir 



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185 



services. Did not hear exactly Imw 
many were killed. .\s it hcL^aii to yet 
dark we heard that the .S]ianiards were 
behind us, so we had tn ]int in and 
march through the dark and the worst 
part of the road. It was rather tough 
work. We reached our camii aliout 
nine p.m. and pitched tents. I was 
detailed on guard duty from two a.m. 
to five. It was rather hard work after 
that march." 

Xo pen has yet done adetfuate justice 
to the filthy condition of the cam])ing 
places wdiere Cubans or .'^Ijaniards had 
been. Nor would it be ])roper to 
Iirint the same were it written. The 
inborn sen.se of neatness characteris- 
tic of the Yankee was constantly of- 
fended beyond all description. Evi- 
dently the natives had not the slight- 
est notion of sanitation. The Ameri- 
can went to Cuba none too soon. 
A\'hile snakes were not common in 
Culia. Sergeants Young and X'augim 
aver that an immense black one went 
through their tent, wdiile lyinn' here, 
and from his s]ieed they fancy he may 
be going yet. 

The army is in the enenn's countr\- 
and long snells in the same cam]) are 
not to be the rule. It is perhaps eight 
o'clock a.m. on Saturday when the 
lines are formetl again and thev march 
about two miles toward the north. 
There are many waits, everything 
bearing the appearance of a cautious 
feeling of the way through a strange 
land. ' It is onlv on the third attcm])t 




that eam]i is finally i)itche<l. Here a 
hall is made over Snnda\' and the 
wear\' travelers have a genuine and 
needed rest, though a most vigilant 
outlook is had for the foe, supposed to 
l)e lurking somewhere in the vicinity. 

K\en in war. man's liking for pets 
has illustrations. Thus v:\v\y Ca|)tain 
Ilcdden \\in\ the undi\ided atleetions 
of an owl and, perched near by on a 
eomenient bough, this bird of wisdom 
bliidsed on the Comjjany jiroceedings. 
I'"\en "Snowball" forbore stealing 
him. but his nightly and thus un- 
timeh- screechings made it necessary 
to banish what might have become an 
owlish "Old .-\l>e.''' \'igilance on the 
l.art of officers as to the habits of their 
men is alwavs commendable, and the 

care that Major . not the one from 

Worcester, manifested lest G n 

should Inn-t himself by drinking his 
canteen of wine obtained in Siboney, 
was truly nolde. He evidently felt 
that if it all found lodgment in his 
own stomach, one private at least 
would be safe from the hospital. Thus 
was total abstinence for the other fel- 
low enforced. 

.Monday, the 27th, sees a fresh start 
of the Second, though it is not a very 
long one. The bugle rouses the men 
at 4.30 and a quickly prepared break- 
fast is eaten, so that they are ready for 
the advance long before the order 
comes. .\fter all, the march is not 
longer than two or three miles and 
once more a halt is made for camping. 
Tlie regiment is encamiied here till the 
afternoon of Thursday, the last day of 
lune. On the 28th they were wet down 
with showers, and rations are becom- 
ing scarce, though in the evening small 
ones of bacon and beans are issued. 
Perha])s it was here that Corporal 
Scott won fame for himself through 
the accrirac>- of his division of bacon 
to be gi\en out to his me.ss. As he and 
nearly all other men in the Company 
hail concluded to allow their hair to 
grow on face as well as head, he had 
iio immediate use for his razor, and the 
latter sharp tool he called into use as 
he ec|'uabl\- and justly sliced up the 
scanty portion which had to suffice for 
him and all his messmen. Company 



186 



WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



H's only represcntati\-c of the Legis- 
lature made a doleful outcry because 
one of his 'tack liad been Jjereft of a 
corner. The strait was suggestive of 
"Give me tliree grains of corn" in the 
Irish famine of 1846. The cam]) is 
only six miles or thereabouts from 
Santiago, and all sorts of suppositions 
fill the minds of the men as they 
linger, concerning when and how they 
are to attack the Spaniard. It is on 
this day that Sergeant Jordan is ap- 
pointed Chief of Pioneers and gets his 



gi\en iiiu to the men. ( )n this day 
notice is gi\'en that mail will be sent 
hi>mc to Massachusetts, and as one 
writer remarks, "I ha^•e only three 
minutes in which to write and you 
must excuse some things." In the same 
letter he complains of a lack of en- 
velopes and asks to have some sent 
him; also states that through this lack- 
ing he can write to his home only. 
The writer is never a complainer, for 
he says, "I am feeling fine and am en- 
joying the trip." 




Wi 



orders from (nldnel (lark. W'ednes- 
da\' lirings nmre rain, f(jlli)Wed 1)\' blaz- 
ing lint Mni>.]iine, though one i.if the 
nun in bis leller says he rather enjoys 
the rain, since it o mis off the earth. In- 
spectinn omivs at ten a.m. and a]ip;>- 
r.'itus f<ir an armv balloon goes l)y dur- 
ing tlie day ; also ammunition for the 
artillery, and eighty rounds extra are 



Charles J. Klini. 
William H. King. 

'i'hursilay is the last day nf June and 
it sees the end of the camp, the ascent, 
several times, of the war balloon and 
the orders to pack up. The location, as 
the men find weeks later wdien they 
have access to maps, is southwest of 
Santiago, which in a general way they 
understand to be tlie objective of the 
campaign, l)ut of the struggle neces- 



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187 



sary to compass lu-r surrender they arc 
as vet ignorant. The silent, cluse ami 
darkened marcli of Conipan}- I f dif- 
fered in no way from that of their as- 
sociate companies, though each man 
had his individual thoughts as he 
picked his way through glade and 
bushes, going he had not the least 
notion where, yet no one was averse 
to hearing the order to halt, wltich af- 
forded an opportunity for the men to 
wrap their blankets about them and to 
lie to such slumber as the night could 
give. The darkest night and tlie great- 
est danger could not sui^jiress the 
spirit of mischief innate in some. 

K s had discovered that the only 

clerical member of the regiment was 
extremely nervous and apprehensive, 
hence the Boston boy would whisper 
to his neighbor, but loudly enough for 
ministerial ears, "Whist ! Don't you 
see that right through there?" mean- 
while keeping an eye on the celerity 
with which clericus reached for his 
revolver. Tom Hood died punning. 

El Caney is only an additional name 
in the long list of battles in which 
Americans have been engaged, but it 
looms up more conspicuously in the 
shorter list of those fought by the same 
people on foreign soil. The start for it 
was made tlie night before and men 
"in place rest" are easily roused. They 
were up and ofif soon after. These 
Massachusetts men knew \er}- little of 
what was in store for them, Imt they 
must have had apprehensions that this 




I si of July might mark an e])och in 
their li\ es, and when in their advance 
they canu' upon a liattery of artillery 
lilanted directl}' across tlieir way, 
thereby cutting oil' the last five com- 
panies as thev were marching, they had 
reason to believe that the fight had be- 
gun, since right over yonder were the 
Spanish block-house and indications of 
Spanish fortifications. The first shot 
from Capron's Battery was music to 
the ears of men to war inclined, and 
one enthusiast counted the successive 
discharges and says there were just 
forty-seven. That first gun, some sol- 
diers say, was fired at 6.25 a.m., and 
different moments might arise from dif- 
ferences in watches. The private sol- 
dier sees little but what happens in his 
immediate vicinity. Says one boy to 
his parents, "I can't tell you much 
about the battle, as I hardly know my- 
self. We were there about eight hours, 
and how those repeaters did sing! Our 
Springfield rifles with the smoky pow- 
der are no good. I have got a fine car- 
bine which one of the loth Cavalry 
gave me. It is a dandy. That night 
we marched all around. 1 couldn't tell 
how far : as it was .so dark, you almost 
had to feel your way. ^^■e reached the 
main part nf the army on the morning 
of the 2d. anil were placed in position, 
l)ut did not have any firing to do, al- 
though the bullets were flying around 
in great stvle." There were those to 
whnse ai)precialion distance would 
ha\e lent enchantment. One such, 
wliM had been a great boaster, was dis- 
covered beating a hasty retreat, when 
he was halted by the Captain with 
"Where are you going?" "I am going 
hack to help Sergeant Smith look out 
f,,r the rolls." is the reply, and positive 
connnands arc necessary to keep him 
in place. Xot so with "Snowball," the 
Company's African protege. The Cap- 
lain had to repeatedly order him to 
keep his head down or he would lose it, 
but all sense of fear was lost in his 
anxiety to see what was going on. 

Sergeant Monroe writes of his ob- 
servations thus : "That night (June 30) 
■,ve started on. just as they were rais- 
ing their war balloon, and lay down 



188 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMPANY H. 



189 



and sle[)t on tlu' cop of a hill, with the 
lights of Santiago in the distance. 
Early the next forenoon we resumed 
march, and after a short time halted 
behind a battery which had opened fire. 
Here the ist Battalion and part of the 
2d went on and did not notify us ; hence 
we were left behind. They sent back a 
message, and we started on again. As 
we neared the battle, which had begun 
about 6.45, our battalion waited for a 
regiment of regulars to pass, and be- 
fore we cmdd connect again the istand 
2d battalions had gone into the fight. 
^^'hen we came up finally there was no 
one to show where the rest had gone, 
so we started along towards the firing. 
Meanwhile our loss had been quite 
heavy on account of our powder, which 
made lots of smoke and so afforded a 
good mark for the Spaniards. Accord- 
ingly we were directed to a sunken 
road, where we were to remain as sup- 
port, and here we continued the entire 
day. The bullets whistled above our 
heads to beat the band. I fell asleep in 
the midst of it, I was so tired, and so 
did lots of the boys. At last, the bat- 
tery moved nearer, reinforcements 
came up and the enemy was driven out 
of his strong position ;" and El Caney, 
which was to have fallen in an hour, 
really held out for a good long day, one 
of the longest in the year. Richard 
Harding Davis's remarks on this event 
are entertaining at this time and dis- 
tance : "'The plan for the day is inter- 
estins: chieflv because it is so different 




from what happened. . . . Incidenlally, 
General Lawton's divisiun was to pick 
up El Caney, and when El Caney was 
eliminated, his division was to continue 
forward and join hands on the right 
(Lawton's left) with the divisions of 
Generals Sumner and Kent. The army 
was to rest for that night in the woods 
half a mile from San Juan." Thus 
nicely was the advance on July ist 
planned by those in the lead, but as 
with mice and men, plans "gang aft 
aglae." That long day in the blistering 
sun, the stubborn resistance of the 
Spaniards, all attest how much easier 
it is to plan than to execute. July's 
entering <lay had had its record writ- 
ten in Idood and, ere the sun of the 
following had set, thousands of 
friends in the Old Bay State were won- 
dering how the boys of the Second 
fared, and hearts along the banks of 
the Connecticut are bleeding yet for 
valiant souls that on that day went out 
into the unknown, doing what they 
thought their duty in following the tlag 
as it led them to the defense of an op- 
pressed people ; but the enemy has re- 
tired and he must be followed up. The 
march which was to have been taken 
much earlier in the day. now comes 
after a slmrt halt, and again recourse 
is had to Sergeant Monroe's letter: 
"That night we marched a long way 
through the darkness, and at last by a 
roadside lay down and waited till three 
o'clock in the morning, when we ad- 
vanced again till we came where 
another fight seemed to be on. We 
threw ofif our loads and prepared to get 
to the front. Captain Holden ap- 
pointed me to take charge of the 2d 
platoon, which was part of the firing 
line (Lieutenant Fish having been left 
behind sick). The entire Company then 
went forward to the crest of a hill, and 
after an hour's wait we were ordered 
into camp, having a hill between us and 
the enemy." There was an ineffectual 
attempt i>f the Spaniards to break 
through the lines at a late hour of the 
night, occasioning considerable loss of 
sleep to the ^lassachusetts boys and 
others. During this halt. Captain Hol- 
den is Officer-of-the-day (or night), 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



and he finds his thitics exccechngly try- 
ing, the situation being entireh- 
strange and the prospects of an attack 
believed to l)e great. It was here that 
he found Cuba possessing some sort 
of a poisonous plant, which gave him 
an exceedingly sore hand. The camp 
itself was on a hillside, so steep that 
the men vowed that they had to sleep 
with their heels dug into the soil, and 
on the alarm some rolled to the foot 
of the liill before recovery. 



side. Heedless of his own imminent 
danger, he orders the men to keep out 
of range while he discusses the distance 
with the man who has the gun'. ' 'Don"t 
_\()U think it about looo j^ards?" is the 
(juery of the pri\-ate ; and on the agree- 
ment of the officer, he raises his sight 
as coolly as though another pound of 
steam and not the life of a man were 
tlie issue. That the council was effect- 
ual Avas seen soon in the hitting of the 
obnoxious in^;. The lesson was a eood 




Wi 



; C,L 



E. H. \'osB 
SEPH l)E Ma 



W lien war ln-comes a business to 
nun, tluir cnulness in times of danger 
.st-eni^ wonclerful to the noN'ice. On the 
2d of July, \vhen the air is heavy with 
indications uf strife, our boys are inter- 
ested in set-ing an nfficer uf high de- 
gree, sitting lli^ hi irse where l)ullets are 
flying, and conferring with a regular 
shar])shooter wdio was trying to bring 
down a like character on the Spanisli 



one fur the Worcester observers. Of 
the coiKJuct of Colonels Clark and 
Sluuinvay at El Caney, the Boston 
Herald correspondent spoke in the 
highest terms, and upon Private Krebs 
I if the "Wellingtons." who was serv- 
ing as an orderlv fur Colonel Clark, 
he bestowed equal praise. 

.Sunday conies aruund again and, 
much til the ease and comfort of tired 



WKl.l.IXr.ldX RIFLES, IDMI'AXV H. 



ho\s. a truce is prdchiinu-il I'l ir 1 w i-iil y- 
four hijurs, and imich iutcKmI sloop is 
sought wliilo waking cars catch the 
sound of hca\\ tiring cifT towards the 
sea, firing which they arc soon h> 
know was really the death-knell of 
Spanish power in the New World, for 
it is the destruction of Cervera's fleet 
as the Admiral seeks to escape from his 
long embottling in Santiago Harbor ; 
and somewhere, as a sweet refrain of 
the day's noise and turmoil, a brass 
band plays and the soldiers remark that 
it is the first sound of the kind they 
have heard since reaching the Island, 
and some of them think the end has 
surely come. The coming days, how- 
e\'er, are to bring the digging of 
trenches and occasional remoyals till 
finally the city has been circumvented 
and the Second finds itself on the other 
side of the bay. The 4th of July is 
signalized by a continuance of the 
truce, a sharp lookout for the enem_\', 
and finall}' a march to a new camp 
on the top of a hill, whence the Span- 
iards may be seen very plainly "walk- 
ing backward and forth." The sol- 
diers strongly suspect that negotia- 
tions are afoot to end the conflict, and 
already they are reckoning the days to 
intervene between them anil home. 
Really, their hardest trials are in store, 
but fortunately they do not know it. 

A letter from AUie Kimball, dated 
the 5th, gives a very good picture of the 
situation as it applied to him antl \ery 
likelv to the most of his conu'ades : "I 







hope these lelters that 1 ha\e written 
will reach you U. K. 1 'lease tell the rest 
of the folks that I can't write to them, 
for paper here is as scarce as food. .Ml 
we liave had for the last week or two is 
hardtack and bacon, and not any too 
much of them. Have been feeling fine, 
and,;is long as 1 can dodge the .Span- 
iards' luiUets, I do not mind the rest 
\ ery much, although 1 woulil like a 
• piart of cold milk, a good bath and 
some clean clothes. We have iu)l re- 
ceived any news from home yet, but I 
su]ipose it is on tlie way." There was 
nothing for dinner this da}- and but lit- 
tle more for supper. Much of the time 
of the soldiers is spent in the trenches, 
either adding to their strength or con- 
sidering the bombardment, which is 
more or less frequent. So poor is the 
aim of the enemy that the boys think 
it fun to sit on the edge of the ditch 
and speculate on the direction and 
striking place of the missile. That no 
one of them was hurt or touched should 
be sufficient comment on the (|uality of 
the .Spanish marksmanship. .\nv vet- 
eran of the war of the Rebellion who 
had a part in the long strain at Cold 
Harbor and the games of chance played 
there under fire, can appreciate the 
rubliers of whist that Captain Holden 
and Sergeant Young played against 
Sergeant Monroe and Private Pratt, 
in which the Captain and his partner 
were sadly^ worsted, though their de- 
feat they ascribe, in large part, to their 
watching of the firing. 

In spite of the abundance of land- 
crabs and tarantulas, the boys never 
got used to them, especially the latter, 
riiey do say that J — s camped on the 
safe altitude of a cracker-box rather 
than undergo the ])ossible touch of the 
creature, and one night, when dark and 
drizzly, it was time for the midnight 

detail to go into the trenches, P n 

was so sleepy that even the Captain's 
Voice could not rouse him, till b}' the 
iiUroduction of a lantern a full-sized 
tarantula was disclosed hard by. He 
came out at once, glad to exchange 
such pro.ximity for pick and shovel. 

Rain is a regular happening and the 
camps become veritable steam-chests. 
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from home, l)carini:j date of June i,^th, 
and a small supply of food. Durinc; 
these days, Lieutenant Hobson. the 
hero of the Merriniac, is exchanged 
and Lieutenant Fish returns to liis 
company. The size and brilliancy of 
Cuban lig^htning^-bugs may be inferred 
from the fact that Bond actually mis- 
took them for Spaniards with lanterns 
and gave a quick alarm accordingly. 
Great shouting inside the Spanish lines 
on the 9th indicates some unusual ex- 
citement there. The tendency to see 
things '"big" is often seen among sol- 
diers. ^\'hen j\l r and D n 

came in from an exploration of their 
own, the former saw siege-guns by 
the score, while the latter, by his side, 
said, "I didn't see an\' such guns." 
Again while -\L averred that both of 
them had been in great personal danger 
from sharpshooters, D. claimed to 
have been unaware of any such peril. 

The scarcity of writing material is 
well shown in a letter which about this 
time is sent by Sergeant ATonroe to his 
mother. It is written upon a small 
memorandum pad and the envelope is 
one that had been sent to him, but by 
reversing it, i. e., directing it upon the 
back, erasing his own name and with 
black thread sewing up the opened 
enfl, he furnishes his mother with a 
relic of special \'alue. Though the men 
grew used to constant rain, they never 
grew to really like getting wet. Says 
one victim of interminable dripping. 
"1 had not got mv tent pitched, so 1 




3M THE Trench es. 



lay fidwn between two rubber blank- 
ets. I was all right during the first 
shower, but I fell asleep, and the 
blanket, .slipping down, I awoke with it 
raining guns and a stream of water 
running under nie. I was disgusted, 
but I covered the best I could and went 
to sleep and let the water go it. I 
awoke in the morning with one side 
soaked through, but T dried by the fire, 
and late in the afternoon the sun came 
out enough to dry partially my blanket. 
I have made up my mind that if [ ever 
go to another war, nothing less than 
the rank of Major will do for me." 

"Snowball," the Com])any's mascot, 
had little realization of the import of 
a truce, and the boys had hard work in 
preventing his opening fire on the en- 
emy on the nth when he came into the 
trenches, having stolen Krebs' Krag, 
cartridge belt and all. If he was ready 
for a fight, why shouldn't the Spaniard 
be in similar condition ? This same 
Ethiope was thrifty at times, and his 
military friends do not forget how. hav- 
ing been sent by them to fill their can- 
teens, he did his best to trade or sell 
them. He needed constant supervi- 
sion, and let it be said for the Wor- 
cester boys that he usually got it. 

To make light of difificulties is a test 
of a good soldier, and one writer says 
that he has fifteen distinct dishes made 
from hardtack, and when he gets home 
he is .going to get up a 'tack dinner and 
in\ite all of his relatives. However, 
he is of the opinion that a whole month 
of 'tack and bacon with "jjrime" roast 
beef chasers is likely to lessen some- 
what the appetite. Owing to the near- 
ness of the -Spanish lines it is possible 
to see ])lainly and almost to hear the 
eneni}-. Knowing the value of a Red- 
cross banner, the Spaniards have pro- 
tected a large part of the exposed por- 
tion of the city with that emblem, and 
.\merican gunners are much disgusted, 
wishing that they might knock down 
some of the crosses and thereby have a 
chance to drop a few shells among 
"those shacks." Even Mark Tapley 
might have fallen into melancholy had 
he found himself encamped with the 



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Second Massachusetts in their final lo- 
cation, down in the swamp, alternately 
drenched and steamed till colds and 
malaria began to get in their deadly 
work. There is little or no quinine in 
the hospitals, and the fever has its own 
nefarious way. There need be no won- 
der that they were glad ears on which 
fell the welcome news, July 14th, that 
Santiago and the eastern end of Cuba 
had surrendered. The pent-up yells 
that ought ti-> lia\e had ex])ression on 



been known as the most unhealthful 
locality in the x^ntilles. 

If immediately after the taking of 
Santiagx) our boys could have come 
home, the story of Cuban mortality 
had been very different, but the au- 
thorities at home had become fearful 
of the introduction of yellow fever, so 
the soldiers who had bravely held up 
through the days and weeks of siege 
must now remain to dispel all signs of 
the dreaded ]5estilence. It was hope 




that day were supi)ressed In (dease 
(icneral Shafter, who seemed Id be 
I)articularly careful of the feelings of 
the Dons. 

It was an unhappy fate that chose 
the vicinity of Santiago as the theatre 
of land operations in Cuba. Shut in by 
high hills, thus cut off from northern 
breezes, subject to miasmic effluvia 
irom the adjacent marshes, it had long 



deferred, making not only the heart 
sick, but the body as well. Up to the 
14th, 443 men in the Second had been 
reported ill. 

After the end, there is a growing ci- 
vility between the former opponents, 
and Spaniards make glad certain Amer- 
ican hearts by the gift of cigars, while 
rations find their way into Cuban and 
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cxemplificil hy the efforts of the men 
to clean u]) and to wash their garments 
after so many days of rain and mud. 
( )n the i6th, the next day but one after 
the surrender, eighty-seven men are 
arrested for running the guard, tliat 
they may visit the city. 

How the formalities of the surrender 
appeared to one boy is shown in his 
words concerning that crowning event 
of the Sunday, the 17th : "At noon we 
had to get out on the top of the 
trenches and stand like fools while 
some one about a mile oflf did some old 
thing." Of course there were salutes 
and the flag was raised above the 
palace of the Governor General. In the 
afternoon, the regiment paraded before 
Colonel Clark, who read the message 
from President McKinley, thanking 
the men for their bravery and persist- 
ence, and the Colonel himself made an 
impressive speech. During the follow- 
ing days there are many interchanges 
of courtesies, but "camp life is slow," 
and a detail to the city for provisions 
is eagerly sought. They would like to 
go to Porto Rico, or "any old place" 
if only there may be a change. On the 
i8th of July ships enter the harbor and 
more rife than ever are the rumors of 
going home. 

Our boys found their Cuban allies 
quite as alert as themseh'es in the mat- 
ter of food. Anything left exposed or 
uncovered was in immediate danger 
of confiscation. One day. Corporal 
Scott rushed into the camp, saying. 




"'■'"'_*"■ — 'I's sake. ])oys, come this 
way," and obeying his behest, they 
found a large party of natives doing 
their best to carry off a quantity of 
canned tomatoes, all in great gallon re- 
ceptacles. It would never do to suffer 
such provisions to disappear in that 
way. so with a rush the boys bore 
down on the raiders, making them 
think that the Spaniards were coming. 
The cans were dropiied and the Yan- 
kees had tomatoes galore. ( )nce in 
their lives, the "Welfingtons" had for 
fuel what under otlier circumstances 
would have been sufficient for a king's 
ransom. The Captain had ordered 
them to tear down an old shack hard 
by. and the fuel thus secured they pro- 
ceeded to burn, though it consisted in 
a large part of the most valuable ma- 
hogany. They were not, just then, in 
the cabinet business. 

That an army moves upon its hellv. 
as General Sherman was wont to say, 
has proof in almost every letter writ- 
ten by a soldier, and on every page of 
his diary there is sure to be some word 
which confirms the statement. Xor is 
the truth confined to the private sol- 
dier. Officers and privates are alike 
hungry, and alike welcome a chance to 
fill their stomachs with something bet- 
ter than they have been having. In 
this line, Privates Gleason and Mower 
moved on the 19th, when they went over 
to a neighboring Cuban village and pre- 
pared a supper for ten men, includ- 
ing Colonel Clark, Lieutenant-colonel 
Shumway, Major Whipple, Adjutant 
Hawkins, Captain Holden, Sergeants 
Young, Jordan and Xewton and the 
cooks themselves. The menu, though 
not printed on gilt-edged paper, was 
attractive, and consisted in "Rice a la 
bacon fat & sugar. (}reen tomatoes, 
& oil. Sardines, Yams, Cocoanut cakes, 
Coft'ee. Rum." (")ne officer commenting 
on the event and menu says: "Don't 
U'a\'e out the ice water, for that was 
really the best item in the whole bill 
of fare." The room which the boys had 
taken for the meal was a characteristic 
Cuban home, without floor and with 
very little furniture. Their table was a 
door which they had placed upon two 



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barrels, and their seats were impro- 
vised from small boxes. Interest was 
added to the occasion by the woman of 
the house telling; of her little girl bein.sf 
bitten in that very room that day by a 
scorpion. The Worcester members of 
the party aver that the Springfielders, 
casting wary glances in all directions, 
drew in their heads lest a poisonous 
"varmint" should fall on them. 

Food was an ever present and press- 
ing theme. At home, amid the many 
distractions and division of labor, it 
comes most prominently into view at 
meal time, but when a man has to be 
his own purveyor and cook as well, his 
stomach assumes unprecedented im- 
portance. In Cuba, men found them- 
selves doing things undreamedof a few 
weeks before. Thus when certain 
"\\'ellingtons" were cooking beans one 
morning, they were admonished of the 
nearness of a sitting guinea hen. To 
kill the bird was the work of a mo- 
ment, and her flesh made a savory 
feast for the partakers. Her eggs, far 
too near parturition or hatching for 
Yankee use. were traded with the Cu- 
bans for good, ripe mangoes, while 
the wings, sent back to ■ \\'orcester. 
adorned for the season the summer hat 
of an officer's wife. Trading was ever 
a New Englander's prerogative, and 
what he could not eat himself was 
readily exchanged with the natives for 
something they were delighted to get 
rid of. The bacon, which had become 
too rank fur northern nostrils, not to 




mention stomachs, found readv market 
among those to the manor born. Real 
shower-baths were possible here, for it 
rained every day, and any one could 
see when the clouds would drop their 
contents. There was nothing to pre- 
\ent. so the men were wont to soap 
their bodies and let the cooling rain 
wash them clean ; but one day their 
Captain reckoned without his host, for 
though he had plentifully lathered his 
person in expectations of the shower 
which once in his experience failed to 
come, from his oleaginous covering, 
he had to rid himself in some other 
and less convenient manner, all the 
time of course running the gauntlet of 
his comrades' gibes and jokes. 

Some of the soldiers are wondering 
yet whether they laid themselves open 
to prosecution by any statute through 
their palming off nickels upon the cit- 
izens of Santiago for cjuarters and tak- 
ing twenty cents change for five-cent 
purchases, or whether the trick, played 
upon them by the apparently guileless 
Spaniard, was not a fair offset. Thus, 
many of them were glad to get their 
bills changed, and the natives were 
equally ready to accommodate them 
with their own debased silver cur- 
rency, a condition not at first under- 
stood by the Yaivkees. In the supper 
or dinner described above, coffee was 
served after the Cuban manner, and 
those who partook declare that an or- 
dinary cup of it would intoxicate. For 
the party, there had been used two 
pounds of the best berry, which was 
burned twice as much as is the Ameri- 
can practice, and then through this 
mass, boiling water was poured, thus 
securing a decoction so strong that 
onh' the habituated could enjoy it. 

.So well was this meal away from 
camp thought of, the very next day 
eighteen of the Compan}- repeated the 
affair of the 19th and made merry over 
the saiue menu, and on their return 
brought Ijack a supply of sugar and 
rum. 

Ship])ing is becoming common in the 
harbor and considerable washing up is 
accomplished, and there was need of it, 
for working in the trenches had pretty 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



nearly dt- moiistrated the truth of the 
words in the burial service, "Dust thou 
art and to dust shalt thou return." 
( )nly in this case it was mud instead of 
dust. Evidently too high living was 
not in accordance with headquarters 
notiims of camp propriety, and on this 
day the boys were ordered to remain in 
camp. W'ith the issuing of the first 
beefsteak ration on the 21st of July, 
the long reign of bacon came to an end. 



There is some drilling, but the chief 
incentive is past, for there is to be no 
more fighting, and officers, no more 
than enlisted men, care to take over- 
much exercise in the hot, humid cli- 
mate. Foot-gear has become very 
much clown at the heels, and a certain 
Sergeant in his home letter says that 
his pair of shoes is really the only de- 
cent pair in the Company. One ingen- 
ious fellow, not having his mending kit 




It was received with grateful stomachs, 
and as never before the soldiers appre- 
ciated the comforts left behind when 
they enlisted. Of these fresh meat ra- 
tions it must l)e said that the first 
dav's sending from the ships' coolers 
were the best. Cuba's heat soon made 
the meat unbearable and more was 
liuried than eaten. 



with him, repairs his badly worn shoes 
with wire, certain to hold as long as the 
leather does. On the 22d not half of 
the Company responded to the call for 
drill, so many of the same being sick. 
Some of the boys move their camping- 
place down to the side of the stream 
whence they had already derived about 
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afforded. The _\vl l)rcnij;ht ratimis of 
fresh bread, and with fri.\sh niuat hfe 
seemed a httle more worth Hving. The 
camp was moved over the trenches. 

One day during the post-surrender 
wait, certain "W'elling-tons" started out 
to find the commissary department, 
doubtless in search of food, and an ad- 
venture of theirs well illustrates how a 
West Point education sometimes makes 
a wretched prig of a man. Unable to 
find the object of their cjuest, they 
made bold to ask their way of a young 
regular lieutenant whom they met, re- 
splendent in all the refulgence of a 
beautiful new uniform. Saluting him 
with all the deference that was his due, 
they made known their want, but great 
was their astonishment when, without 
a word, he turned his back upon them. 
In their amazement at such usage, they 
■ stood speechless, but fortunately at 
this very moment, who should appear 
but General Lawton, mounted, and his 
quick eye detected soinething wrong. 
Accosting the voung men, he asked 
them what the trouble was, to which 
they replied as above. The General 
immediately called the West Pointer 
to him and asked if he had been duly 
saluted by the men and if there was 
anything out of the ordinary in their 
request, to which he was obliged to re- 
ply that they had done nothing wrong. 
"Well, then," said the oliicer, "do you 
tell these soldiers where the commis- 
sary is, and if I ever hear of any more 
conduct of this character. 111 rip those 
straps off your shoulders d — d quick." 
The boys went their way with height- 
ened respect for a man who knew men 
when he saw them and to whom a ])ri- 
vate was as good as any one if he be- 
haved himself. 

Sunday, the 24th, came with mail 
from the States, letters from home and 
the Worcester Telegram of the 7th inst. 
One of the boys wrote answers right 
away, and in one of them he says, 
"You can sleep good and sound every 
night, as I am as safe as though in a 
cage and hung u]) in the parlor, and 
have felt the same all the time." He 
proclaims his regrets that he cannot 



ha\'e a good s\vim, sinct- he is not any 
too clean, and his unchangeable disgust 
that the regiment did not get a chance 
at the enemy on account of the powder 
they were obliged to use. Knowing as 
the government did the quality of the 
arms and ammunition possessed by the 
Second, it is an ever growing wonder 
that it was sent away with such an 
outfit. No wonder that Roosevelt re- 
ferred to the weapons of the volunteers 
as "archaic." Some of the Company 
tried to assume a religious air by going 
into the city and attending the cathe- 
dral, the largest in Cuba, though it 
would not be strange if curiosity was 
the ruling motive in the act. 

Letters and newspapers were not al- 
ways sources of unalloyed pleasure, 
for on one occasion there came, in the 
Telegram, the news of the death of 
Lieutenant Gray's mother. His sympa- 
thetic comrades, anxious to spare him 
the sorrow incident to the announce- 
ment, carefully destroyed every paper 
so that he might not see them, but 
]\Iajor F. came along and told the Lieu- 
tenant, so all the care of the boys was 
ineft'ectual. His comrades felt for him 
in his bereavement, and he had the 
consolation that comes from the feel- 
ing of touching elbows in the presence 
of a common danger. 

Life in Cuba during these days is not 
especially varied. Men improve every 
opportunity to get into the city, and 
they study with the keen eyes of 
Yankees the differences between what 
tluv see and what they are used to 
at liome. They secure relics and sou- 
venirs from the natives, and many a 
curio, now highly prized in Worcester, 
was obtained in these waiting hours. 
Buttons, machetes, and objects of per- 
manent interest are brought away with 
them, while tobacco in various forms 
finds immediate consumption. 

Among the places of interest in or 
near the city was the so-called Vir- 
ginius Wall, against which Captain 
Joseph Fry and thirty-six of his men 
were ])laced when they were shot by 
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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



for alk\q;ecl conspiracy, their vessel 
haxiiig- been seized by the Spaniards 
im the charge of contemplating' an at- 
tack n])on the Island. At the time, the 
incident aroused public feeling to a 
high pitch, second only to that of the 
destruction of the Maine. 

As the rations increase in liberality, 
the number of sick grows larger, not 
as a result but as a reminder that when 
there might be a measure of enjoyment 
the men are incapable of appreciation. 
On the 25th, the Quartermaster took 
orders for new suits of clothes, and 
two days later only fourteen men re- 
sponded to roll-call, and on the last 
one in Cuba, only six men appeared. 
Each day sees nmre men going to the 
hospital. The introduction of ice into 
the camp, the 28th, was a luxury in- 
deed, and iced coffee was a reminder 
of days at Imme. For those who re- 
main on duty there is an abundance of 
work, for the camp must be kept in 
order and jiri i\-isinns must be obtained 
from the city. The first death in the 
Company occurred on the 30th. that 
of Charles E. Buck, who succumbed to 
the prevailing ailment. His body was 
buried at noon. Captain Holden, 
writing the next day to his wife, said: 
"We had a sad thing to do yesterday. 
Charles Buck died in the morning in 
the hospital. They sent me word and 
wanted him buried at once. So I took 
about a dozen men and we dug his 
grave under some trees and buried him 
with his blanket and his haversack 
under his head. It was a sad thing for 
the boys. I read a few verses, in the 
absence of the chaplain, and the bu- 
gler played taps, and that was the ser- 
\'ice. We marked his grave so that if 
they wish tn remove him, they can." 
The last day of thr nmnth was note- 
worthy in that all the commissioned 
ofificers were sick, and of the non-com- 
missioned officers, only Corporal Scott 
was ready for guard dutw He was 
also acting as Battalion .Vdjutant. The 
men were mustered for |)ay. 

The advent of .\ugust saw no im- 
provement in the local situation; in- 
deed at Vi<) <'i-m- .^ilas I'nderurave 



died, and at sunrise his Ixuh- was laid 
near that of Buck. The arrival of hos- 
pital supplies renders it possible for 
men to obtain quinine, and to some ex- 
tent the progress of fever is stayed. 
Near eight o'clock in the afternoon, 
loud cheering is heard in the distance 
and speedily works nearer. Everv one 
.sallies out to learn what it is all about, 
and the report comes that Porto Rico 
has surrendered and that Spain has 
sued for peace. August 2d beheld the 
arrival of a boat load of immunes who 
were to work such a revolution in the 
Cuban campaign, but after their ar- 
rival very little was heard of them, 
though the idea seemed a feasible one. 
After all it was not yellow fever that 
the men were suffering from. The hos- 
pital was made a little more habitable 
by the coming of some cot-beds. The 
knapsacks which had been left on the 
Knickerliocker when the Company de- 
liarked. came u]) on the 3d, and the 
men had the privilege of donning their 
blue uniforms again. The same day. 
Captain Holden went to the hospital 
and Lieutenant Gray was left in com- 
mand. Also on this day came large 
tents and some of the chroniclers 
mention luxuries such as Indian meal, 
pear sauce, pickles and tea. 

Those boys inclined to observe 
things, and there were many such, 
could not help remarking the won- 
drous rapidity with which nature re- 
newed herself. The moist and heated 
air made the surface of the earth a veri- 
table hot-house, and the marvelous veg- 
etation of the land, when it was laying 
up stores of coal for later generations, 
seemed rejieated. ^^^^en Lieutenant 
I'Tsh and his party came in after El 
Caney, they had much to say about the 
development of certain corn-planting 
experiences of theirs, claiming that 
Jonah's gourd was hardly more speedy 
in its growth. The natix'es said that 
fort}' da\'s after dropping' a seed sweet 
])otato in the groimd they could dig 
ripened tubers. When the regiment 
came awa\'. grass was growing from 
the clay-filled bags ]5laced upon the 
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emerald porcupines, ami the £;rass, 
scarcely two weeks old, stood knee 
high over the graves of , Buck and 
Undergrave. Later, in September. 
when Armorer Hubbard visited the 
place, the vegetation was so rank that, 
tall as he is, he could scarcely see out 
or over the grass which covered those 
same tombs. Cuba has no twilight. 
Darkness follows daylight like a pall, 
and \\'orcester boys thought that 
courting there would lack a ciiarni to 
which they had been accustomed. 
"The dark-eved maid with the sweet 
guitar," they failed to see. 

The 4th of August saw the coming 
of large arrearages of mail, and letters 
from home were read with eager eyes, 
though it was after dark when the pre- 
cious matter arrived. Towards night 
of the 5th, two of the Company, Ran- 
dall and Hakanson, passed out into the 
infinite and were with Buck and Under- 
grave. In a letter written this day, 
-\llie Kimball mentions the coming to 
him, the night Ijefore, of a revolver 
with a box of writing paper and en- 
\elopes. He says he has not much use 
for the revolver now, but can use it 
another 4tli. Poor boy, long before 
that time he was to be where there is 
no shooting nor other mortal care. His 
own words graphically describe the sit- 
uation : "Hax'e not a great deal to write 
about ; most ever\- one has been 
knocked out with malaria. Have been 
very lucky myself ; have not had it bad 
myself at all. The only trouble is there 
are so many sick that those who are half 
well get all the work and get knocked 
out again. ... I understand we 
are to move at almost any moment 
towards the United States, and you may 
bet that United States is good enough 
for any one. . . . Our usual after- 
noon shower is coming ott, and 1 am 
trying to keep dry and write at the 
same time. One of the men went to 
town and l^rought up a lot of stuf¥ to 
eat. and I have a can of Franco-Ameri- 
can soup, mutton broth, which I im- 
agine will taste first class for supjier. 



This ncKin f had potatoes and onions 
boiled: for jjrcakfast, coffee and some 
bum bread. We have had bread lately ; 
they exchange flour for Ijread in Santi- 
ago, but I would just as leave have 
'tack. There is plenty of bacon, but 
no one seems to want any to eat. . . . 
I don"t believe you could hire one out 
of fifty to remain here at ten dollars a 
day if they had a chance to get back." 
( )n this day, too. certain patients were 
thought by the surgeons to have yel- 
low fever, the most dreaded of ail- 
ments, and if their diagnosis were cor- 
rect, it meant the detention of the reg- 
iment and many more deaths. How- 
ever, they gave the boys the benefit of 
a douljt. wherein they were justified by 
results, and did not report the cases. 

On the 6th of the month began the 
departure of the troops, and on this day 
the 1st Cavalry went on board the 
transport, to be followed by other regi- 
ments as the time advanced. Private 
Mower made a trip to tov^'n, and re- 
turning brought a quantity of canned 
stufi^, much to the gratification of his 
comrades. Some of the Company put 
up their large tents. The next day 
went the Rough Riders and the loth 
Cavalry. r)n the 8th Private Green 
died, and the men received two 
months' pay, though few are able to 
walk to headcjuarters for the same. 
Affairs are nearing a windup now. and 
on the loth came the official announce- 
ment for home-going. Diary-keepers 
record "plenty to eat," though one 
lover of the weed chronicles his giving 
fiftv cents for a cigar. The new khaki 
uniforms were given out the next day, 
and those of the Company able to do so 
were marched to headciuarters for ex- 
amination, and several were ordered 
to remain. .\t the seven a.m. insjiec- 
tion thirty-two men were present, less 
than one-half of the Company. 

The 1.2th was a joyous day to the 
men who were able to pack up and get 
ready for the departure. Lieutenant 
Grav commands the Company as it 
goes on board the Mobile, reaching the 
same by means of the tug Laura. 



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THE MOBILE, WHICH liRol'CHT THE SECOND REGIMENT FROM CUBA TO MONTAUK. 



Though the men who slept on the 
upper deck were wet through liy the 
rain which came as usual, they were 
hap])}' in the change from mud to 
boards. The ne.xt day the effects are all 
stored away, and the men of the Sec- 
ond Massachusetts, with the 8th and 
22d Regulars, are all on board. Early 
in the afternoon the transport sails 
away and she carries a load of happy 
hearts, rejoicing that having accom- 
jjlished what they came for they are 
now on their way homeward. All are 
alert to see the traces of the Merrimac, 
Reina Mercedes and the grim Moro 
Castle, so long the guardian of the en- 
trance to the bay. Two hours later the 
vessel passes Daiquiri, where the land- 
ing was made in June, and then with 
her prow directed hcimeward, the Mo- 
bile steams onward into the night. 
The Second Regiment had had fifty 



(lavs of Cuban campaigning, an experi- 
ence which would furnish the men with 
stock themes for the remainder of their 
respective lives. They had been under 
fire ; they had been through the vicis- 
situdes of the siege ; they had dug 
trenches till they considered them- 
selves adepts with pick and shovel, 
voung men the most of whom would 
hardly have undertaken such work of 
their own will at home: they had suf- 
fered the pangsof hunger and the pains 
of thirst ; they had shivered with chills 
and had burned in the embrace of fever, 
and now they were going home, i. e., all 
who were alive ; but some of those on 
board the transport were not to see 
their homes, a few not even their native 
shores, yet the majority of them were 
glad that they had been a part of the 
.\merican army in its humane mission. 
This part of the story might fitly end 



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2o;j 



with some remarks upon the chmate of 
the Island and some of the hardships 
which were pecuhar to the regiment. 
To begin with, the Massachusetts boys 
were marching, fighting and camping 
very near the 20th degree of north lati- 
tude. Hence they were well within 
the torrid zone during the summer 
solstice. They encountered the very 
hottest weather of the tropical region 
and during the rainy season. That they 
came out as well as they did is highly 
creditable to their constitutions and 
their care of themselves. 

The location of the camp for the reg- 
iment was unfortunate, since the men 
were thereby constantly exposed to the 
malarial influences, there at their very 
acme. Armorer George W. Hubbard of 
Worcester, who a month later was in 
and about Santiago looking after the 
bodies of Worcester dead, for the pur- 
pose of returning them to Massachu- 
setts, savs that he had a summer's ex- 
perience in Anderson\'ille during the 
Civil \\'ar, but nothing encountered 
there in the way of malarial surround- 
ings began to equal those of the place 
where the regiment was encamped. He 
says: "The site was almost at the 
water's edge, and from it there was a 
constant rising of vapor that could be 
dispelled onlv by the sun's rays. The 
moment the sun disappeared behind 
the hills, the vapor could be seen ris- 
ing till it enveloped the entire locality 
and it remained till the next day's sun 
drove it away." It was cold and heavy 
and as penetrating as a New England 
northeaster. When the morning 
dawned, the men would shake off great 
drops of dew that had gathered upon 
their blankets, and some had not cov- 
ering enough to keep their bodies 
warm, and as a last resort they would 
walk the long night away, while their 
teeth like castanets told of their suf- 
ferings. With such experience mala- 
rial fever was inevitable. 

Now, however, all this was in the 
retrospect, and years later these men, 
so glad to get away from Cuba with its 



sorry memories, will recmuu li.i their 
children's children wiiat they saw, 
heard and did there. All could not go 
home with the Company, some being 
too ill to undertake the journey then. 
Those left behind were Lieutenant 
Fish and Privates Cook, Hodgins and 
\\'ood. As a care-taker for others. Pri- 
vate Coates also was left, and on this 
very day of leaving, so long and so ar- 
dently wished for. Corporal Marvin F. 
Ames joined the chosen few who had 
been finally mustered out. It is a sum- 
mer sea upon which they are sailing, 
hence as smooth as glass, a condition 
entirelv to the tastes of these wan and 
worn mortals, fever and famine wasted. 
If thev had encountered tempests on 
their way homeward, no one knows 
how much worse might have been 
their sufferings. The Mobile was by 
no means an ideal craft for excursion 
purposes, having been used as a cattle 
transport and exceedingly capacious 
for that purpose, but there were too 
manv indications of her recent occupa- 
ti(in to make her exactly agreeable to 
human passengers. However, endur- 
ance was the badge of all soldiers in 
those days, and, swung in hammocks, 
thev made the best of their jilight, 
anxiously looking for the end of the 
trip. There is employment for some of 
the stronger ones in the hold as they 
look u]) and identify the knapsacks 
which are tundiled in lieltcr-skclter. 

The saddest sound of the return trip 
is that of two bells for slowing down, 
that the body of some deceased com- 
rade might receive burial. No signal 
was dreaded as that. Eleven times was 
there the lessened speed, that the dead 
might be committed to the deep, and 
eight of the number were from the 
Second Massachusetts. One, Private 
Earle E. Clark, was from the "'Welling- 
tons," and his body received ocean 
burial at 4.30 p.m. of the 17th. the day 
of his death. Though impressive, there 
were circumstances attendant on some 
of the burials which left creepy sensa- 
tions among those beholding. Thus in 
one case the head-covering separated 



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as the body was committed, and the 
ghastly face of the dead seemed to look 
imploringly upon the vessel and Com- 
pany. A major of the regulars had died 
before leaving the Island, and an ef- 
fort was made to carry his encoffined 
body home, but decomposition became 
sc) apparent and, withal, so offensive 
that burial was necessary. That the 
coffin might sink the more readily a 
large quantity of iron was added to the 
same, but the formation of gases had 
rendered the casket so buoyant that it 
would not down and, as far as the eye 
could follow it, there remained a large 
portion of the object projecting above 
the wave, as though its occupant wduld 
follow his comrades home again. X'nr 
did that one of the ship's crew to whom 
fell the duty of encasing the dead, 
view his task with complacency. In- 
deed, he received his orders each time 
with manifest disapproval, and using 
language far mure forcible than polite, 
he sewed up the poor forms that 
mothers afar were even then straining 
their eyes to see. Possibly it was his 
way of keeping his courage up as he 
performed his unwelcome labor. 

There were variations in the voyage, 
even though the sea was glass-like in 
its smoothness. When a man went 
crazy in his illness there was excite- 
ment enough. A member of Company 
H lost his reason thus, and he made 
things lively as he undertook to jump 
overboard. His comrades pursued him 
in his mad race, hardly equaling his 
unnatural speed, and only the suddenly 
outstretched arm of an able seaman 
saved him from immersion and per- 
haps death. Those who saw the mis- 
hap of the chief musician of the 22d 
Regulars always tell the story with 
many a laugh. The man was very 
much of a dude in his manners and 
dress, and on the I'lth he had arrayed 
himself in his whitest raiment, and 
under the impression that not even 
King Solomon was thus bedecked, and 
with a plentiful stock of novels, he en- 
sconced himself within the easy em- 
))race of a hammcjck. ciuite oblivious to 



the troul)le.s of the pcmr ordinjiry mor- 
tals about him. Hut it has ever been 
that pride at its topmost notch is near- 
est a fall, so when a sailor, in his duty 
of trying to change the dull gray of the 
Mobile to her former jetty hue, as he 
climbed over the bulwarks to the out- 
side staging, accidentally gave his pail 
of black paint a tip, the black mass 
spilled and, as it went out of the dish, 
was caught by the wind and com- 
pletely deluged the white-clad musi- 
cian lolling near. He was a sight never 
seen before, and once beheld could 
never be forgotten. His supercilious 
wa}-s prevented his receiving the sym- 
|)athies which usuall_\- help to salve 
o\-er such sore places, and he had to 
cleanse his garments alone. 

"Home again, home again, from a 
foreign shore," has been the song of 
many a weary wanderer as he reaches 
the land that gave him birth. Places 
all along tlie Atlantic coast had been 
named as probable spots where the 
soldiers would spend some time in re- 
cruiting their wearied bodies, but the 
eastern end of Long Island was that 
finally settled upon as best adapted to 
their needs, and, well on in the evening 
of August i8th, the Mobile anchored 
ofif Montauk Point. To the unskilled 
mind, it were a simple matter to land 
the returning brave and allow them to 
seek their homes, but main- a stick of 
red tape must be unrolled l)efore those 
homes are seen, for protection to those 
very homes is in the minds of those 
who direct the delay. They must re- 
main aboard until assurance is had 
that no pestilence aliides with them, 
and even then they must l)e isolated 
till all danger of its dread apjiearance 
is past. In this way, Friday, the iQth. 
was passed, all companies being lined 
up and examined, and first the actu- 
ally sick went off, "a God-forsaken 
crowd." one onlooker calls them. 

It is noon of the 20th when the 
"Wellingtons" touch the shore and 
make their way either by conveyance 
or afoot to the detention camp, a mile 
and a half from the landing. "Where 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



is yrmr company?"' asks Major Fair- 
banks of Sergeant Young, who had led 
his diminished line into camp. "Right 
here," is the reply. "But where?" again 
savs the Major, "I don't see any com- 
pany." "Well," exclaims the Sergeant, 
here's all I've got." as he points to the 
three or four men who accompanied 
him. Food, such as they have not seen 
for many a day, awaits them, and once 
more they realize how good are old- 
fashioned Ijread, sandwiches, green 
peas and soup, but survivors have not 
ceased even yet their reproaches 
against the physician who advised 
them to eat heartily of the Bartlett 
pears which injudicious friends had 
sent into the camp. It is claimed by 
some that boys are now in their graves 
through that well-meant but wholly 
improper direction. 

Then came Sunday, and it seemed 
truly God's day as the men ate food 
prepared in the good old way and 
looked upon scenes something like 
those among which they were reared. 
Milk and eggs are decided to be the 
l)est items in their bill of fare, and 
these are dealt out to them as they 
need. Monday there comes to the 
"Wellingtons" as their cook a colored 
man who has filled a similar position 
in "1!" Company. Tuesday, the boys 
from the western part of the county 
were gladdened by a visit fnim W. J- 
Vizard of North Brookfield, and a se- 
\ere thunder-strirm ciin\-inces them 
that Cul)a has nn momipoly of that 
kincl of tempest. 

It is noteworthy that the iir^t home 
contrilniti<in came ti i the "Welling- 
tons" this day, owing to the thought- 
fulness of (ieo. D. Barber, an original 
member of the Company and the treas- 
urer of the Veteran Association. He 
was s])ending Sunday at Watch Hill, 
and learning of the arrival of his cjld 
friends, he at <nice set about doing 
something fur their relief and comfort. 
He packed into a barrel forty dollars' 
worth of butter, Ijread and cheese with 
other edibles, besides towels, pails and 
basins, and sent the whole lot along 



without any formal order from his as- 
sociates. "He hel])s twice who helps 
early," and this aid was most oppor- 
tune, considerably forestalling the 
later gifts to the \\'orcester comjianies 
by the citizens. 

The next day, or W^ednesday the 
24th, their period of detention ended 
and they change camps, moving about 
two miles away from the first stopping 
place and leaving a detail to sweep up 
and remove all rubbish. Thursday 
brought visitors in the shape of Cap- 
tain W. E. Hassam and Geo. Barber, 
both gladly welcomed by their old as- 
sociates. If the men had possessed the 
power to eat, there was food enough 
presented tr) them to enable them to 
make up for lost time, but nature ar- 
ranges that only about so much can be 
eaten, no matter wdiat the inducement. 
The end is gradually approaching, for 
on the 26th orders are given to be 
ready to move on fifteen minutes' 
notice, and in the afternoon, guns and 
belts are turned in. 

August 27th is the day to he remem- 
bered by all who had a part in its glad 
memories. There is little need to 
sound the bugle, for are they not going 
home, and what sound is needed to 
arouse men whose only thought for 
many a day has been just what this day 
is to bring about? They start from 
their camp at six o'clock a.m., and once 
in their army-life there is no complaint 
at the earh- hour. They go aboard the 
steamer lilock Island, and at 7.40 
steam away for New London. They 
land on Connecticut soil at 9.45, and 
whatever their former lives, all are 
pleased to be in the Land of Steady 
Habits. With their comrades of A 
and C, they share the dainties provided 
b\- the good people along their way 
tlinuigh Connecticut, and again with 
them rejoice at the sight of Governor 
Roger \\'olcott, who greets them at the 
borders of their own home State and, 
with other Worcester boys, get a fore- 
taste of Heaven as they reach the Heart 
of the Commonwealth at 3.45 in the 
afternoon. How the crowds cheered 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



and how the flags waved and how the 
tears started when the people saw 
what war was rendering back to them, 
is it not already written? 

Some rode in hacks to their homes 
directly, others went through the 
streets to the Armory and thence made 
their way homeward, but to all came, 
as never before, the truth of the poet's 
words, "There's no place like home." 
To them who survived the ordeal of 
Cuba and Long Island came the same 



orders that were given tc:i the other 
companies of the Second, and eventu- 
ally they, too, repaired to Springfield, 
there to receive their muster-out and 
to become, what they formerly were, 
just common every-day citizens of the 
Commonwealth ; yet not quite the 
same, for in every mind there was a 
consciousness of duty done that comes 
only to him who has sworn to per- 
form faithfully his part as a soldier 
true. 



THE W ELLINGTON DEAD. 



"All present or accounted f(_>r" is an 
expression heard every day of a sol- 
dier's service, if he were present at 
roll-call. "Accounted for," like charity, 
covers multitudes of, if not sins, at 
least a wide range of possibilities. Had 
the roll lieen called when the few mem- 
bers rode to the .\rmory. Aug. 27th, 
the expression would have covered the 
commissioned officers as sick in hos- 
pital and all others not present as 
buried beneath the sod in Cuba, the 
waves between the Island and Mon- 
tauk F'oint. in hospital somewhere, or 
in their respective homes, unable to re- 
port with their comrades for the final 
act of breaking ranks. Moist skies at- 
tended their departure and moist eyes 
greeted their retinm ; nor was the story 
of suffering and death t(j end with the 
return of the soldiers, for on the very 
ila\- wlv.n Worcester was extending a 
welcome home to her sons, another 
"Wellington" was dying at .Montauk, 
and on thv morrow still another 
passed; and the death line grew, till, 
in ( )ctohcr, thirteen had answered the 
linal roll-call. Since then two more 
l-.a\e res|>oniled. and to-day, six years 
after, tlu're are invalids who date their 
illness from Cuban privations. 

In the battle's lull at Chickamauga, 
during the night of September lyth. 
iSO^, onl\ a few hours before he re- 
ceived his death shot. General William 
H. Lytle, commanding a brigade of 
L'nion troops, by the meagre light of a 



tallow candle penned certain lines that 
must touch responsive chords in the 
hearts of men, as long as humanity con- 
tinues to render up its life for home, 
for friends and for the oppressed of all 
nations. His theme was "A Soldier's 
Ca])," and the words are as applicable 
in this the beginning of a new century 
as they were when written more than 
fortv Vears ago, although the Ohio 
(ien'eral had no thought of the possi- 
bilities of a war with Spain for the sal- 
vation of Cuba. The last stanza reads 
as follows, and it is a fitting refrain for 
all the dead of this fair city in the 
struggle for the overthrow of oppres- 
sion in the new worhl ; 

"Though my darling is sleeping 

To-day with the dead, 
.'\nd daisies and clover 

Bloom over his head^, 
I smile through my tears 

.•\s I lay it away, 
Tliat battle-worn cap 

Lettered 'Company K.' 

Charles Edmund lUick, the first to 
die in Cul-a, was a Worcester boy, not 
\-et twenty years old when death 
claimed him. He was born in this city 
.Nov. 1 2th. 1878, the son of Charles P. 
and .\nne (Coonan) Buck, and was re- 
siding on Pleasant Street at the time of 
his enlistment. He was one of Princi- 
pal J. C. Lyford's boys at the Winslow 
Street grammar school, and thence en- 
tered tile English High in 1895, leav- 
ing the same in his second year to go to 



WELLINGTON' RIFLES, COMPANY II. 



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work. In the cniiiloy of Goddanl & 
Sons, hoot manufacturers, when the 
war began, he was a recruit to the 
"\VelIingtons," but he kept up with the 
best till the malarial influences of the 
siege came on, when, after a period of 
suffering, he yielded up his spirit. His 
body remained in Cuban soil till it was 
taken up and returned to \\'orcester in 
the uKinth of November, "98, and was 
finall}' afforded rest in Hope Cemetery. 
As no portrait of him had been taken 
since he was twelve years old, no sem- 
blance is given here. 

.\loysius Lincoln Farmer was born 
in Worcester, Dec. 4, 1880, and was one 
of the smallest and youngest members 
of the Company. As a lad he was a 
pupil in Ledge Street, and was a special 
student at the Holy Cross College 
when he enlisted. Prominent in ath- 
letics, his father a soldier in the ^Var 
of the Rebellion, it was natural for him 
to go into this strife if he could. His 
parents were William L. and Mary T. 
(McNulty) Farmer, and the former, 
who died when Allie was four years 
old, had been a member of the First 
Massachusetts Cavalry. The home of 
the family was No. };j Washington 
.Street. He had preceded his comrades 
in getting away from Montauk, and he 
lived till some time later, but his weak- 
ness was such that he could not recu- 
perate, and he passed on October ist, 
liis burial being from St. John's 
Church, in St. John's Cemetery. 

Earle Eugene Clarke. — Private Clarke 
was a native of L'.xbridge, the son of Ev- 
erett Eugene and Harriet Abbie (Olds) 
Clarke. His education was had in the 
public schools. As he was born De- 
cember 17, 1878, he had not attained the 
age of twenty years when he was called 
home, another of the youthful sacri- 
fices made by the nation in behalf of 
Cuba. He had chosen the vocation of a 
butcher, at least that is the business as- 
signed in his enlistment paper. He was 
one of the boys given by the town of 
Brookfield to the cause. Though he 
passed through the privations of the 
campaign in the Island, he was unable 
to reach the continent with his com- 



rades. Like so many others of the reg- 
iment, his illness increased till on the 
17th of August it terminated in his un- 
timely death, and his bodv received 
ocean burial. No floral wreaths can be 
placed abi .ve the grave of Clarke, but in 
fancy many such are entwined by those 
who loved him. His mother savs that 
history was his favorite study, and it is 
fitting that the final weeks of his brief 
life should have been given in making 
a bright page in the annals of his coun- 
try, one devoted to making Cuba free. 

John Michael ]\Ioran. who died at 
Montauk the very day of the Com- 
pany's return, was born in West 
Brookfield, .A.ug. 9, 1879, the son of 
Patrick J. Moran, the latter having 
served throughout the War of the Re- 
bellion, in the 22d Connecticut, and in 
Company K of the 4th U. S. Artillery. 
His school life was had at Woodland 
Street, whence he went from the eighth 
.grade to work. He had been a member 
of the Worcester Drum Corps, and his 
portrait, as given in this volume, is an 
enlarged cop}- of his face as it appears 
in a Corps group. His brother \\'illiam 
had gone to California, and when the 
war came on, enlisting in the ist Cali- 
fornia, he went to the Philippines. 
Coming back to the L'nited States, 
John did not rally as did some of his 
fellows, and when the Companv left 
Montauk, he remained, though his peo- 
ple did not know that he was not 
coming. The mother had prepared a 
supper for her boy and his sisters were 
at the station to greet him. but no 
brother came, nor did thev receive any 
word as to whv he failed them, .\gain 
at the midnight train a faithful sister 
watched for the alighting of the soldier 
hoy, but not till the papers of Sunday 
morning came did the anxious house- 
hold know- why the son and brother 
was not there. He died Aug. 27th. His 
body rests in St. John's Cemetery. The 
home of the family is on Parker Street. 

Fabian Hakanson, who died August 
6th, was born in Sweden, May 17th, 
1878, the son of Charles .A., Hakanson 
and wife. His boyhood home on \\'ard 
Street was near Millburv Street, and 



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from the fashioning; care of Principal 
F. P. McKeon he went to a business 
college and thence to the employment 
of Barnard, Sumner & Putnam Com- 
pany. The same sterling blood which 
had prompted Swedes of years ago to 
follow Gustavus Vasa and Adolphus 
and Charles the Twelfth, stirred that 
of the erstwhile clerk to fight for the 



comrades, rode witli them to the Ar- 
mor}', but the effort was quite too 
much for him. Soon after leaving the 
train he had a chill, and later was con- 
veyed to his home on North Street. 
He was born in Worcester, Nov. 14th, 
1876, the son of Martin and Josie (Hay- 
den) Moore. He was by trade a wire- 
worker, and his first essav to enlist 



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oppressed and, liaving ]iassed a suc- 
cessful examination, he was proud to 
march away with the "Wellingtons," 
but he was one of those who were not 
to return with his comrades. Later 
his body was rendered back and it 
now sleeps in the Swedish Cemetery 
at New Worcester, the burial being 
from Union Church. 

John J. Moore came home with his 



was with the Emmets, but, unsuccess- 
ful there, he afterwards entered Com- 
pany H. The very next day after the 
return, having another chill, he was 
ordered to St. Vincent's Hospital, 
where he died on the 31st of August, 
just three days later. 

Alston Dwight Kimball, the son of 
Herl)ert .\. and Sarah C. (Morse) 
Kimball, was born in Southbridge, 



WELLIXGTOX RIFLES, COMPAXV H. 



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November 2, 1872. A large part of his 
boyhood was spent on Dix Street. 
Worcester, and his early schooling was 
had on that street also, a pupil of Prin- 
cipal \\"m. H. Bartlett.and later he en- 
tered the Classical High School. Sub- 
sequently he became a salesman, and 
was thus employed when the war be- 
gan. Returning to Worcester he so- 
licited and secured the consent of his 
parents to enlist. His first choice was 
the navy, but his father dissuaded him 
from that plan, and being an intimate 
friend of Captain Holden, persuaded 
him to risk his fortunes with the 
"^^'ellingtons." Frequent extracts 
from his home letters in this volume 
attest how well he endured the cam- 
paign till he reached Montauk. There 
the tale was soon told, and on the 28th, 
the day after his comrades had their 
reception in Worcester, he was re- 
ceived into a higher realm, where 
there would be no more going out 
forever. By the side of the body of 
his younger brother, Frank, in Hope 
Cemetery, all that is mortal of Allie 
awaits the resurrection. 

John James McLaughlin was a native 
of \\'orcester, born April 22d. 1874. 
His parents were John and Margaret 
(Scanlon) McLaughlin, and his early 
home on Dorrance Street made him a 
pupil in the neighboring Cambridge 
Street school, where he grew up under 
the tutelage of that admirable director 
of youth, Miss Carrie S. George. From 
school he became an iron-worker and 
in that capacity the war found him. .\s 
a member of the "Wellingtons" he 
bore his part till the return of the Com- 
pany, when, going to the hospital, he 
was unable to make the trip home with 
the regiment, but was brought back 
some days later by his aunt. After 
his recovery he gained in flesh, becom- 
ing, as his portrait shows, quite stout. 
During this time he was married to 
Miss Mary O'Day of this city, who, 
with a daughter, survives him. Though 
apparently well, he was subject to pe- 
riods of illness, evidently the result of 
his Cuban experience, and tinalU', 



October 2d, 1902, death ended his suf- 
ferings. His burial, from the Church 
of the Sacred Heart, was in St. John's 
Cemetery. 

Wm. Capen Green. — Though born 
in Worcester, Dec. 12, 1877, the son of 
Ellis and Ellen M. (Capen) Green, 
this member of the "Wellingtons" 
hailed from Spencer, in which sterling 
hill township the larger part of his short 
life was spent. He had the advantages of 
the excellent schools of Spencer and 
was graduated from the David Prouty 
High School in 1897, having a part in 
the graduating exercises. During his 
school life he was conspicuous in ath- 
letics, carrying the pennon of his class 
and school well to the front on many 
occasions. His active, strenuous nature 
led him to join a local hose comjjany, 
and none were more interested than he. 
From the school to wage earning was 
a short step, and he was in the enii)loy 
of the Isaac Prouty Boot and .Shoe 
Company when the standard of war 
was erected. Devoted though he was 
to his home, to his vigorous tempera- 
ment enlistment seemed the only 
proper thing, and he was among the 
early recruits to the Company. How 
he did his duty in caniji, on the march, 
and in the field — are not the items writ- 
ten on the memories of all his cuni- 
rades? He was one of the victims of 
fever, Aug. 9th, the scourge which 
slew so many more of our boys than 
the bullet or the bayonet. His body 
lay in Cuban soil till late in the year, 
when with so many others it was 
brought back to his home town and 
there reburied. The Spencer Leader of 
-Sept. 3d gives a whole page to a me- 
morial of the young man, and from a 
poem by Mrs. Nellie Thayer Bemis, 
the following stanza is selected: 

"Hang the Hags at half mast! 

For our hero brave and true. 
Who gave liis life in our Country's cause 

'Neath the red, the white, the blue." 

Marvin Fisher Ames. — Corporal 
Ames was a gift of the Empire State 
to Massachusetts, being a native of 
Walton, a township among the moun- 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



tains of Delaware County, and was the 
son of John Fisher and Mary Anne 
(Beach) Ames. He was l)orn Nov. 
28th, 1868. The father was a veteran 
of the Civil War, having served his 
country in Company A of the 144th 
New York Infantry. Having had the 
advantages of the public schools of 
New York State, he came to Worcester 
and here took a course in Hinman's 
Business College, and after that 
studied law with Charles Frank Ste- 
vens, Esq., taking the place formerly 
held by his brother. He had been here 
about six years when the war began. 
Commenting on his death, Mr. Ste- 
vens says: "Marvin Ames was worth 
more than the whole island of Cuba." 
Always interested in military matters, 
he was a charter member of \\ illie 
Grout Cam]), Sons of Veterans, where 
to this dav his memory is fondly cher- 
ished, and' he was also one of the or- 
ganizers of the "Wellingtons," He was 
ever found in the path of duty till 
stricken down with the malady com- 
mon to those who sought Cuba during 
these superheated days. He died .\ug. 
13th, 1898, and, being a yellow fever 
suspect, his body was not returned 
with those of his comrades, Init re- 
mained in the land he had given his life 
to save, till the spring of 1900. It was 
March 2d of that year that the closely 
sealed casket, itself enclosed in a 
heavy iron-bound bo.x, was received 1)y 
Sessions & Sons. The latter covered 
the box with black broadcloth, and two 
davs later it was borne to the Church 
of the L'nity, where a great assemblv 
of the bodies represented by him was 
gathered to pay their last tribute to his 
memory. The" Rev. F. L. Phalen, pas- 
tor of the Church and Chaplain of th.- 
2<1 M. \'. .M.. conducted the services, 
while the eulogy was pronounced bv 
I'rank 1'. ( .oulding, Esq., of the Wor- 
cester County Bar, of which the cle- 
ceased had been a member. I'.y the 
side of the flag-covered bier, the elo- 
quent speaker was at his best. \\ illie 
(Irout Cam]), under the command of 
Cajitain .\. R. Mc.Vdam, held the right 



of the line: the "Wellingtons," under 
Cajitain Charles S. Holden, turned out 
fifty-five men : twenty-five veterans 
from Post ID, G. A. R., were present : 
of the Camp of Spanish War Veterans 
there were ten representatives, and of 
the "Wellington" veteran organization, 
under command of George D. Barber, 
there were twenty. Also there were 
delegations fron.i the General Charles 
Devens Chapter of American Mechan- 
ics and from the Worcester Countv 
Bar. The next day, March 5th, the 
body was taken to Corporal Ames' old 
home in the Empire State, under the 
care of Lieutenant H. C. Young, Ser- 
geants F. P. Jordan, A. F. Love. Cor- 
poral George E. Burr. Privates E. W. 
Lawrence and J. B. Nault, with Cap- 
tain McAdam of the Sons of Veterans. 
( )n arri\-ing in A\'alton, final funeral 
e.xercises were held in the boyhood 
home of Corporal Ames, and there his 
body now reposes. The expenses in- 
cident to his burial were borne by the 
different organizations in which he 
was interested, under the direction 
and instance of the Willie Grout Camp, 
S. O. y. Many generous gifts were 
made, perhaps none more so than that 
of Sessions & Sons, undertakers, who 
donated their services. 

Thomas Francis Keevan. — Westboro 
did not send many representatives into 
the Cuban strife, but of the few one 
was Private Keevan, a native of the 
town and a son of Thomas and Ellen 
(Hums) Keevan, born May 17, 1873. 
The father had been a soldier in the 
Rebellion days, being a member of 
Company I of the 50th, the company 
which has been known for many ' 
year as the "Emmets." Thomas Fran- 
cis had his schooling in his birth town 
and became, in due time, a machinist. 
It was in this cajiacity that the war 
found him, and the services of the 
father so long before [irompted the 
son to go and do likewise: thus we 
find him in the ranks of the "Welling- 
tons." With his fellows he did his 
dutv to the end, and when he reached 
\\estboro on his return, he met a re- 



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213 



ception whose meniorics lint;cr \i-t 
among those who had a part, or Ijcheld 
the enthusiasm which greeted thi- 
home-coming of the young man. lUit 
the inevitable illness wliicli accom- 
panied the Cuban campaigners seized 
liim.and for five months he languished, 
a victim of the fever so fatal to manv. 
Though he partially recovered, it was 
only to linger weak in body and de- 
ranged in mind till April 12, 1901, when. 



(leorge Warren Hodgins. — One of 
the older men of the Company, seem- 
ingly Hodgins should have endured 
the hardships of war ])etter than the 
majority, but he succumbed earlier than 
many and was among those left on the 
Island when the regiment returned. 
The son of William and Eliza (Xason ) 
Hodgins, he was born on a farm in 
Calais. Maine. March 17th. 1864. dur- 
ing that battle summer which sealed the 




Corp. M. F. .\me 

F. H. H.\K.*NSON 



William C. Gree.n. 



Corp. C. yi. H.^yf. 

G. W. HODOINS 



by his own hand, he hastened his de- 
parture from this world. Though the 
word suicide is applied to his going. 
there was no responsibility on his part : 
the blame goes further back, to the pri- 
vations of his stay in Cuba. His body 
rests in St. John's Cemetery, Worces- 
ter, wdiere the grave is annually vis- 
ited bv his surviving comrades. 



fate of the Confederacy, though he was 
not the son of a veteran, since a defect 
in his father's right eye prevented his 
enlistment. Boyhood was given to 
farm work and the public schools, with 
a short time in a shop in Calais, till 
the winter of i883-'84. when he took a 
course in Eastman's Business College 
of Poughkeepsie. X. Y. The fall of 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



1885 found him in Worcester, where in 
the shop of F. E. Reed Co. he learned 
the trade of machinist. He remained 
here four years, going then to the em- 
ploy of L. Robbins, where he had 
charge of the planing work till late in 
1896. He was a call member of the Fire 
Department and was considered a most 
efficient man. His name is recalled 
with fervor to this day at the Beacon 
Street engine house. Then for a year 
and a half he was with his father in 
Maine, coming back to F. E. Reed's 
shop, March 1st, 1898, where the war 
found him. He died Sept. 12th, aboard 
the transport Missouri, when on his 
way home, his body receiving ocean 
burial. It is remembered by an officer 
of the Company that when, on enlist- 
ing, the recruit was asked the name of 
a friend to whom his name and data 
should be sent in case of death, Hodg- 
ins said : "That is a good idea, for I have 
no expectations of coming home alive." 
A member of Salem Square Congre- 
gational Church, now merged with 
Union, he was a most exemplary sol- 
dier. His mother died in 1887. His 
father survi\es at the age of seventy- 




six years, and a brother antl sister live 
in this city. 

Harvey Randall was born in Mont- 
pellier, France, Nov. 28th, 1877, the son 
of American parents, then in this foreign 
land, said parents being Dr. Mer- 
ton Orlando and Myra (Hubbard* 
Randall. Dr. Randall is a resident of 
Pasadena, California, and there his son 
received his education, graduating 
from the high school of that city in 
1897. He came east that he might learn 
the trade of machinist, being in the 
employ of F. E. Reed Co. Dr. Ran- 
dall was not of military age during the 
Rebellion, but our young soldier had 
martial relatives in that he was related 
to the late Dr. J. Oramel Martin of 
Worcester, an army surgeon in 1861. 

Randall was the Company musician, 
and his was the bugle call which sum- 
moned the men when the alarm from 
Las Guasimas startled the bathers at 
Siboney. The rigors of Cuban life 
quickly told on Private Randall, and 
his was one of the early deaths in the 
Company, his body remaining in Cuban 
soil till the return of soldierly remains 
later in the season. Its final burial is 
in the family lot at Norwich, Chenango 
County, New York. That a bright, 
hopeful young life should be thus sum- 
marily ended, is deeply distressing 
and doubly sq when we reflect that 
more adequate care and attention on 
the part of the government might have 
prevented this and many similar trag- 
edies. 

Charles Maxwell Haye was anotlier 
gift of the Empire State to Massachu- 
setts and the nation. The son of Chas 
:Maxwen and Matilda M. (Rider) 
Have, he was born in Chazy, Clinton 
County, N. Y., Sept. 10, 1877. His ed- 
ucation was that of the public schools 
of his native State, terminating, as far 
as the schools were concerned, in the 
high school of Plattsburg. His occupa- 
tion was that of a machinist, and lat- 
terly had worked as an electrician, 
though at the time of his enlistment he 
was in the employ of Braman, Dow & 
Co., steam fitters. He was well known 



WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMPANY II. 



215 



aniono: cyclists, and at one time lia<I 
worked for the Speirs Mamifacturinsj 
Co. He had been a member of H 
Company for some time, and was 
known as an athlete, being one of the 
largest men, physically, in the organi- 
zation, and in its basketball contests 
he was a star player. At one time he 
was a reporter on the Worcester Tel- 
egram, and that journal ascribes to 
him an excellent degree of industry and 
faithfulness. He was ill when the Mo- 
bile reached ]\Iontauk, and was taken 
to the hospital, where he steadily grew 
worse, no efforts on the part of the 
physicians being able to stay his dis- 
ease. He died Sept. 3d, and his body 
was taken for burial to the National 
Cemetery of Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. Though afar from the scenes 
of active life, his comrades do not for- 
get him, and each ^lemorial Day, at 
their expense, flowers are laid upon his 
grave. His mother resides in Lowell. 
Silas Undergrave. — When the call 
for enlistments came, among the many 
responding were two brothers from 
Millbury. Though of French extrac- 
tion, thev were American linrn and had 



jiassed through the usual nnuinc of 
public school life. They were pleased 
enough at being accepted by the offi- 
cers of the "Wellingtons," and with 
high hopes they marched away from 
the city on that morning in early May, 
However, when they came to face the 
examination in Camp Dewey, as in 
Bible days, one was taken and the 
other left. Silas was, as he thought, 
the lucky one, while Fred returned to 
Worcester. Both were sons of Silas 
Undergrave of Millbury, where Silas 
was born, Feb. 14th, 1872. When the 
war began he was working as a baker 
on Norwich Street. With his fellows, 
he had the ups and downs of Camp 
Dewey, Lakeland, Tampa and the 
Cuban campaign, but w-as one of the 
first to yield to the attack of fever, and 
was the very first W'orcester volunteer 
to die on the far-of¥ Lsland. .\ victim 
of typhoid, he passed away August 
1st, almost before the real trials of the 
Culian stay had begun, .\fter its re- 
pose for months in Cuba, his body was 
returned to his country and now rests 
in the Catholic Cemetcrv of Millburv. 



AT PRESENT. 



The follciwing is a list of the surviv- 
ing members of the Company during 
the war, and, so far as possible, the 
present residence and occupation of 
each man. LTnless otherwise stated, 
the state is Massachusetts, the place 
Worcester. 

Captain Charles S. Holden, manufac- 
turer. Common Council. 

First Lieutenant Edward B. Fish, man- 
ufacturer, Rochester, N. H. 

Second Lieutenant Harry T. Grav, 
merchant. 

Sergeant Charles E. Monroe, electri- 
cian, New York city. 

Sergeant Clarence E. S'mith. assistant 
superintendent. 

Sergeant Harry C. Young, bookkeeper. 

Sergeant Dexter E. Brigham, produce 
dealer. 

Sergeant Frederick B. Jordan, mer- 
chant. 



Sergeant Frank L. \'aughn, book- 
keeper. 

Corporal Joseph L. King, 25 Merrick. 

Corporal A\'illiam H. King, electrician, 
Boston. 

Corporal Albert B. Scott, entertain- 
ment bureau. 

Corporal Albert F. Love, regulator. 

Musician A\'illiam H. \\'ood. Jr., clerk, 
Boston. 

Artificer Archie L. Purinton, locksmith. 

^^"agoner Louie S. Jones, salesman, 
Rochester, N. Y. 



Walter G. Adams, foreman. 

John D. Allen, piano-maker, Spring- 
field. Real name, Ahlin. 

Harry C. Amell, Fire Department. 

Will O. Bachelor, draughtsiuan, Har- 
vey, 111. 

Joseph A. Barrett, barber. 



216 



WORCESTER IX THE SPAMSH WAR. 



\\'illiani MacC. P.ond, U. S. A. 
Herbert A. Coates, engineer. 
Clarence E. Cook, laundryman. 
Joseph DeMarco. banker and notary 

public. 
Charles H. Ditson. carpenter, Sutton. 
Otto L. Fagerstrom, U. S. A. 
Charles J. Flint, machinist. 
Chester M. Fuller, piano-tuner, Boston. 
Thomas H. Gagnon, collector. 
Joseph S. Gendron. reporter. 
George C. Gilmore, foreman. 
John H. Gilmore, wool-sorter. 
Willis Gleason, real estate. 
Frank M. Hill, painter. 
Walter F. Hooker, belt-maker. 
Frederick R. Jefferson, clerk. 
Jeremiah W. King, fireman. 
Franz H. Krebs, Jr., lawyer, Boston. 
Everett W. Lawrence, laundryman. 
Joseph T. Lindsey, pattern-maker. 
John C. .Mac Kay, clerk, Spencer. 



Afalcom W. MacXiven, cook, Boston. 

Dexter Miner, buffer. 

Henry ^I. Mirick, fireman. 

Henry A. Mower, foreman. 

John B. Nault. machinist, Boston. 

Albert E. Newton, draughtsman. 

Arthur J. Paradis, last-maker. 

Albert ^^'. Pratt, U. S. A. 

James F. Quilty, clerk, 

Charles P. Reynolds, mill hand. 

Geo. L. Shedd, clerk, New York city. 

Charles F. Sleeper, conductor. 

William H. Stiles, woodworker, New- 
castle, Ind. 

Fred W. Taft, agent. \\'ebster. 

Clarence \V. Thomj^son. bookkeeper. 

vMliert H. Tourtelotte, shoe-cutter, 
Lynn. 

George L. Trudel, pressman. 

Edgar H. Vosburg, machinist. 

John C. \\'are, bookkeeper. 

Leaver Whittaker, expressman. 



Muster-in Roll of Company H, 2d Re(;ime.\t, Massachusett.s \'olux- 

TEERS, IN THE SERVICE OF THE LTnITED StATES FOR TwO YeARS FROM MaV 

9, 1898, Unless Sooner Discharged. 

[The data, in order, cover rank, name, age. birthplace and occupation.] 



Charles S. Holden, 41, Holden, manu- 
facturer. 

first lieutenant. 

Edward 1!. Fish, zy. Worcester, mer- 
chant. 

SECOND LIEUTENANT. 

Harr}' T. Gray, 22, Ayer, bookkeeper. 
ser(;eants. 

Charles F. Monroe, 26. Shrewsbury, 

electrician. 
Clarence E. Smith. 24, Worcester, clerk. 
Harry C. Young, 26, Prcjvidence, R. I., 

jeweler. 
Dexter E. Brigliam, 38, Shrewsbury, 

merchant. 
Frederick 1!. Jordan, 22. Worcester, 

bookkeeper. 
Frank L. Vaughn, 29, Waitsfield, \'t., 

bookkeeper. 



CORPORALS. 

AIar\-in F. Ames, 29. Walton, N. Y., 
lawyer. 

Joseph L. King. 22, Worcester, book- 
keeper. 

William H. King, 19, Worcester, elec- 
trician. 

Charles M. Haye, 21, Chazy, N. Y., 
steam fitter. 

Albert B. Scott, 31, \\'orcester, organ- 
maker. 

Albert F. Lo\e, 22, Worcester, piano- 
maker. 

ilUSICIANS. 

Harvey Randall, 20, Montpellier, 

Prance, machinist. 
William H. Wood, Jr. ,25, Boston, clerk. 



AUl IFICFR. 



Archie L. Purinton. 
locksmith. 



Shrew>bur\ , 



Louie S. Jon 
salesman. 



\V.\t;oNER. 

13, East Douglas, 



WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMPANY H. 



PRn'ATES. 

Adams, Walter (1., 24, Worcester, 

butcher. 
Allen. John D., 19. Worcester, pho- 
tographer. Real name, Aliliii. 
Amell, Harry C. 20, Alontpelier, Vt.. 

clerk. 
Bachelor, Will O.. 19, Hii])kinton, 

draughtsman. 
Barrett. Jos. A,. 32. Sjiringtield. harl)er. 
Bond. William MacC. 18. Worcester. 

insurance. 
Buck. Chas. E.. 20, \\'orcester. student. 
Clarke. Earle E.. 21, Uxbridge, Initcher. 
Coates, Herbert A., 21. St. Andrews, 

N. B., housesmith. 
Cook, Clarence E., 29. Woonsocket, 

R. I., laundryman. 
DeMarco. Joseph, 25. Potenza, Italy. 

notary pulilic. 
Ditson. Charles H.. 20. Somerset. Me., 

carpenter. 
Fagerstrom, Otto L., 21, Werland, 

Sweden, plater. 
Farmer, Allie L., 19, Worcester, stu- 
dent. 
Flint. Charles J.. 22. Worcester, ship- 
ping clerk. 
Fuller. Chester M.. 22. \\'orcester. 

salesman. 
Gagnon, Thomas H., 25. Hopedale. 

collector. 
Gendron. Joseph S.. 21. Baltic, Conn., 

salesman. 
Gilmore, George C, 22. Hamilton, 

Iowa, clerk. 
Gilmore. John H.. 25. \\'orcester. wool- 
sorter. 
Gleason, Willis. 26, Brookfield, engineer. 
Green, William C, 20, Worcester, 

bootmaker. 
Hakanson. I'ahian H.. 20. Worcester, 

clerk. 
Hill, Frank M., 26, Winchendon, clerk. 
Hodgins, George W., 34, Calais, Me.. 

machinist. 
Hooker, Walter F.,22. ^^'orcester. clerk. 
Jefferson. Frederick R.. 26. Hamilton. 

Canada, clerk. 
Keevan. Thomas F".. 25. Westlioro. 

machinist. 
Kimball. Alston D.. 25, Southbridge. 

salesman. 



Kin< 



re,. Won 



217 

^ter, 



Jeremiah W 
gardener. 

Krel)s, I'Vanz H., Jr.. 29. i'.oston. stu- 
dent. 

Lawrence. Everett W., K), Wnrcestcr, 
])rinter. 

Lindsey, Joseph T.. 19. rr<ispect. Me., 
carpenter, 

Mac Kay, John C, 20, Eondon, Eng- 
land, farmer. 

McLaughlin, John J,, 23, Worcester, 
brazer. 

MacXiven. ?^Ialcom W.. 24. Cohoes, 
X. Y.. jirinter. 

Miner, Dexter. 20. ^^'orcester, nickel 
plater. 

Mirick, Henry M.. 29. Princeton, in- 
spector. 

Moore. John J.. 22, \\'orcester, wire- 
worker. 

Moran. John M., 20, Brookfield. shoe- 
maker. 

Mower. Henry A., 38. West Brook- 
field, manufacturer. 

Xault. John B.. 22. W'oodstock. Conn., 
machinist. 

Xewton. Albert E.. 20. Worcester, ma- 
chinist. 

Paradis. Arthur J.. 2^. Montreal. Can- 
ada, last-maker. 

Pratt. .Klbert W.. 24, Worcester, clerk. 

OuiltN', lames F., 19, Worcester, clerk. 

Reynold's. Charles T., 18, Montville, 
Conn., mill hand. 

Shedd. Geo. L.. 24. Boston, collector. 

Sleeper. Charles F.. 21, Warren, ma- 
chinist. 

Stiles. \\'illiam H., 33. Bridgewater, 
\'t., cabinet-maker. 

Taft, Fred W.. 30, Hingham, salesman. 

Thompson. Clarence W.. 20, Worces- 
ter, electrician. 

Tourtelotte. Albert H.. 25, Spencer, 
shoe-cutter. 

Trudel. George L.. 26. Albany. X. Y.. 
printer. 

Undergrave. Silas. 2^. Millhnry. baker. 

\'osburg. Edgar H.. j8. EUenburg, 
X. Y., machinist. 

Ware. John C. 22. Holliston. book- 
keeper. 

\\hittaker. Leaver. 19. Worcester, 
wood-worker. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 






Captain Jeremiah J. Movnihan. 
First Lieut. John F. Hurley. Second Lieut. William E. McCann. 



EMMET GUARDS COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. 



EMMET Gl'AKDS, COMPANY G. 



219 



Worcester in the Spanish War. 

EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G, 9TH REGIMENT, M. V. M. 




E\'OTEDLY, enthiisiastic- 

Dally American, the "Eni- 
nicts" never forget their 
Irish origin nor the patriot 
wliose name they bear, but 
the Company, with all its 
history, was not the first 
Worcester military organi- 
zation that, in donning the 
)luc, did not forget the 
;recn. There were heroes 
icfore Hercules. As early 
as 1852, Worcester Hibernians, in or- 
ganizing the Jackson Guards, really 
became the first martially arrayed 
Irishmen in Massachusetts. 

In battling for himself, or, as is more 
often the case, for another, a true son 
of Erin ever did enjoy the din of arms. 
\A'ith the Household Troops in French 
array at Fontenoy, or with Sarsfield at 
Boyne W^ater, he fought no more val- 
iantly than with Wellington at Water- 
loo, and in the Irish Ninth at Freder- 
icksburg. Fifty-two years ago, people 
of Irish birth in Worcester were not 
so numerous as in later times, but 
racial traits were just as strong then 
as now ; many a lad from the Evergreen 
Isle was ready to be the Minstrel Boy 
in fact as well as fancy, and, ere 
another decade had sped away, the 
local bard might truly sing that his 
\\'orcester boy 

"to the war has gone. 
In the ranks of death, you'll find him;" 

for, among the would-be soldiers who, 
in the heated nights of August, 1852, 
met in Fenwick Hall to organize a 
military company, were men and boys 
who ten years later were to seal with 
their life's blood their devotion to this 
their newlv made home. 



1852. 

Fortunately for history's sake, Wor- 
cester has not been lacking in those 
disposed to note the passing event, and 
Richard O'Flynn has long been her 
Irish Old Mortality, ready to keep legi- 
ble tile ancient inscription and to re- 
cord the happenings of each recurring 
day. Equally quick to recognize the 
merit of records already made and tire- 
less in their transcription, he has be- 
come a thesaurus of Irish fact in and 
for the Heart of the Commonwealth. 
It was a lucky thing that the records 
of the early meetings of the Jackson 
Guards fell into the hands of the late 
Andrew Athy, and of equal good for- 
tune was it that Mr. O'Flyqn was 
ready and able to copy each and every 
word for the sake of posterity. It was 
August the 9th, 1852, that the first 
gathering was had in Fenwick Hall, 
and among those who signed the roll, 
on that opening night, was Andrew 
Athy himself, and he was a member 
when the Guards were summarily dis- 
banded less than three years later. 

The opening sentence of these rec- 
ords is : "The adopted citizens of Wor- 
cester held a meeting at Fenwick Hall 
to take into consideration the propriety 
of forming a militia company." Then 
or later the members voted that the ob- 
ject of the organization was to uphold 
and advance the Constitution of the 
United States, that the standard stature 
for members be five feet and seven 
inches, that no man should be proposed 
for membership unless of good charac- 
ter and position, and that any one be- 
longing to the Guards seen publicly 
drunk "shall be dealt with by his com- 
rades." At the third meeting, August 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



i6, it was votcil that tlu- CiMiipany be 
called the Jacksim (iuards, a tribute to 
Old Hickory, whose Irish antecedents 
evidently had impressed these later ar- 
rivals from Hibernia. At the same 
meeting a committee of three was ap- 
]5ointed to wait upon (_leneral George 
Hi)l)bs, the local representative of the 



cer Colonel W. A. Williams, who 
])romised to present it to the ( jovernor, 
then George S. Boutwell, and to give 
the project his support. 

But the military ambitions of our 
voung Irishmen were not to he easily 
realized, for at the eleventh meeting, 
September lo, in the |)resence of a large 




.-\ndrew Athv. 



militia, and present to him their peti- 
tidii for recognition. Owing to a lack- 
ing in the proper number of signatures, 
the General declined to receive the 
document. The necessary names were 
soon secured and the precious paper 
was intrusted to the care of Staff Ofifi- 



number of people, it was announced 
that the Governor had refused to grant 
the petition, on the grounds that the 
expression "adopted citizens" was ob- 
jectionable. Eloquence was not want- 
ing at this stage of proceedings and 
many proclaimed their determination 



EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 



221 



to never, no never, su|ipc)rt the Demo- 
cratic partv ac;ain. the (lovernor then 
being of that political strain, a result 
of the famous first coalition, but wise 
counsels prevailed, a committee was 
appointed to present to the Governor 
an amended petition, and, from subse- 
quent events, it may l)e supposed that 
rancor against the Democratic party 
gradually cooled. With the amendeil 
document, signed by fifty members, 
another effort was made to join the 
militia, and this entry for September 
2ist tells the story of success: 

The deputation waited on Governor Bout- 
well, the 2ist Sept.; were introduced by W. F. 
Kelly, Esq.. of Boston. The Governor received 
the deputation kindly, told them that there was 
no action taken on the former petition, and 
that our request should be attended to. We 
got the charter at last. It was sent the same 
evening to General Hobbs. 

Hence the 21st of September nia\' 
be taken as the birthday of Irish mili- 
tarism in Massachusetts, and the date 
is significant, for the same numerals 
indicate a freeman's majority. 

The earliest drill room was in the 
stone edifice on Front Street, now 
numbered 236. and occupied by James 
F. Guerin, druggist ; later the Company 
drilled in what was known as Warren 
Hall on Pearl Street, now a billiard 
room. The first drillmaster was Major 
F. G. Stiles, then an active member of 
the Light Infantry, now President of 
its Veterans. Permanent officers were 
elected October 15th, and .Michael 
O'Driscoll was the first Cai)tain. ( )f the 
career of the Guards in subsequent 
months, how they were drilled by Ad- 
jutant, afterwards Lieut. -colonel, J. M. 
Studley of the 51st, how they purged 
themselves of unworthy members and 
of their general progress, it would be 
interesting to write, but it is rather of 
their successors that this sketch is to 
treat. However, space must be taken 
to state that their contemporaries and 
associates in the militia did not receive 
them kindly, and they had no end of 
the fiercest prejudice to encounter. 
There was no attempt to impugn their 
military bearing, nor their worthiness 
as soldiers, but thev were a later im- 



l)ortatii>ii than their critics, hence the 
olijectionable epithets ai)i)lied to them 
when they appeared ujion the muster 
field. "I'addies" was a word fre(|uently 
in the mouths of their traducers. and 
certain companies even refused to ap- 
pear in line with the Jacksons. but the 
proper officers speedily took that s])irit 
out of the objectors, and in the matter 
of excellence in drill, the honors by no 
means lay with the "earlier here." 

In 1853 the annual muster was at 
Leominster, and was marked by certain 
discourtesies disagreeable to experi- 
ence, but the culmination of prejudice 
and hatred came at the Longmeadow 
muster of 1854. This was the year of 
"Native American" bitterness and cer- 
tain companies of the 8th Regiment 
proclaimed their intention to drive the 
"Paddies" from the field. The Colonel 
of the 8th very kindly informed C'ap- 
tain O'Driscoll of the plot, and the lat- 
ter prepared his "boys" for the scrim- 
mage by giving to each one twenty 
rounds of ball cartridges, to be carried 
on the person, not in their regulation 
bo.xes. Somehow knowledge of this 
fact became known to the bucolic com- 
panies, and their anxiety for a .scrap 
with the Irish lessened rajjidly and had 
no actual manifestation, .\fter fifty 
}ears, we can sympathize with the 
words of a contemporary when he said, 
"It was indeed a matter of thanksgiv- 
ing that no attack was made," for the 
men who subsequently fought for the 
flag on so many fiercely contested 
fields would not have yielded a single 
inch. The discretion j)f tiieir detract- 
ors was commendable. 

Cnfortunately. the lines of the Jack- 
son Guards had fallen on the evildays 
leading up to the famous Know-Xot'h- 
ing spasm in national life. In 1854 this 
party, proclaiming its determination to 
exclude all foreigners from political 
privileges, triumphed at the polls and 
sent a practically unanimous Legisla- 
ture to Boston and elected as Governor 
Henry J. Gardner. One of the refrains 
of the campaign w-as the disbandment 
of the Irish companies in the militia. 
and in due time the promise was kept. 



222 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



Early in January, 1855, (loxcrnor (^lard- 
ner, with the consent of the Council, 
issued the order disbanding Irish com- 
panies in Boston, Lawrence, Lowell and 
\\ orcester, seven in all. Great was the 
indignation of the parties chiefly af- 
fected, and other people blushed that 
race and creed should form barriers to 
the performance of military duty. (Jf 
course the "Jacksons" met and pro- 




RichaedO'Flv 
Antiquarian and "Emmet 



tested, but as Colonel John Hay has 
said in verses of a later day, 

"Vou may resolute till the cows come home." 

the}' could not overcome the stubborn 
fact that as militiamen they no longer 
existed. The Adjutant-general of the 
Commonwealth, Ebenezer Stone, came 
to the city February 17th, and, having 
broken into the Company's armory, re- 
moved all of the public property and 
carried it to the railroad station for 
transportation to Boston. It should be 
stated that the men had refused to afive 



u]) their arms and equipments. The 
spoliation of the Armory having been 
learned by Captain O'Driscoll, he has- 
tened to secure a warrant for the arrest 
of General Stone, but the officer was 
speedily released on bail by Mayor Geo. 
W. Richardson. February 20th, there 
was an indignation meeting in Fenwick 
Hall, the very place where the Company 
was organized, and speech was rife and 
earnest over the untimely end, though 
the outcome was the conclusion to let 
the matter drop, a committee having 
already waited upon Benjamin F. But- 
ler of Lowell, subsequently the famous 
officer and statesman, who advised 
them thus, since the Governor had the 
power to do as he had done. Here the 
matter ended, but the memory rankled 
for many a long day. In the light of 
later history, when so large a number of 
these despised Irishmen gave their lives 
for their adopted country, such a story 
as that outlined seems almost incredi- 
ble. At least ten of the names borne 
on the rolls of the "Jacksons" reap- 
peared on that of the "Emmets" when 
the latter Company, under Major 
Chas. Devens, in April, 1861, marched 
away for Baltimore. A large propor- 
tion' of the men served in some capac- 
it\' between I'^irt Sumter and Appo- 
matti i.\. 

The following is the executive action 
covering the disbandment of the sev- 
eral companies : 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 

Executive Department, 

Council Chamber, Jan. 12th, 1855. 

Tlie Committee on the Militia to whom was 
referred by His Excellency the Commander-in- 
chief the report made to him by the Adjutant- 
general in regard to the composition of certain 
tnilitary companies mentioned in said report, the 
communication of Thomas Cass, Captain of Co. 
B. of the 5th Regiment of .\rtillery. and also 
a comiTiunication from B. F. Edmands, Major- 
general of the I St Division of the militia of the 
Commonwealth, with other accompanying doc- 
uments, have considered the matter referred to 
them, and report that, from the evidence fur- 
nished them, they believe the several compa- 
nies named in the report of the Adjutant-gen- 
eral are composed of persons "foreigners or of 
foreign extraction:" that His Excellency as 
Commander-in-chief has the power legal and 
constitutional to disl)and any military company. 



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223 



uitli tlie advice and consent of the Council, 
and that for the reasons so strongly set forth in 
the inaugural address of His Excellency, it is 
expedient that all of said companies be dis- 
banded. 

ALBERT H. NELSON. 

Cliairman of the Committee. 

The order of disbandment is as 
follows : 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
Headouarters, 
Boston, Jan. 12th. 1855. 

General Order No. 2. 

The Commander-in-chief having approved 
the above advice of Council, orders: That Com- 
panies B, F and H of the sth Regiment of 
Artillery, Company C of 3d Battalion of Light 
Infantry, Company .\ of 5th Regiment of 
Light Infantry. Company G of 7th Regiment 
of Light Infantry, and Company D. Sth Regi- 
ment of Light Infantry, be. and the same are 
hereby disbanded: and that the commissioned 
officers, by reason of such disbanding, be honor- 
ably discharged after the return of such arms, 
equipments or other property in their possession 
as belong to the Commonwealth, to the Adju- 
tant-general, or such officer as he shall authorize 
to receive the same. Major-generals William 
Sutton. George Hobbs and B. F. Edmands are 
charged with the execution of this order, so far 
as it relates to the companies under their 
respective commands. 

Bv the order of His Excellencv 

HENRY J. GARDNER. 
Governor and Commander-in-chief. 
EBENEZER W. STONE, 

.■\djutant-general. 

The work of time in righting the 
wrongs of yesterday is well illustrated 
in the fact that a statue in bronze of 
Thomas Cass now stands in the Public 
Gardens of Boston, not so far from the 
spot where his Company last paraded. 
He died at the head of his regiment, 
the Ninth, on bloody Malvern Hill, 
July I2th, 1862. Somehow there is in 
"all this a reminder of the builders and 
the rejected stone. \\'orcester's Jack- 
son Guards were Company D of the 
Sth Regiment. 

1 859. 

Though temporarily suppressed. 
Irish love of the bugle call with the 
answering quickened step could not be 
held in abeyance always, so four and a 
half years afterwards we find the sons 
of Erin again organizing a military 



company. Had the newspapers of the 
day a small part of the enterprise of 
the present, we should not be lacking 
the exact date and place of meeting, 
but "June. 1859," is as near as the word 
of tradition has it. However, that 
painstaking annalist, Richard O'Flynn, 
has picked up somewhere a leaf from 
records of the Company and duly filed 
it away, and upon the same we may 
read : "Worcester, July 8, i860. First 
Annual Meeting of the Emmet 
(iuards." Either the organization in 
June, so stated, is wrong or the men 
arbitrarily took the foregoing date as 
their natal day. Only two leaves, ap- 
parently, of the original records are in 
existence and these happily Mr. 
( )"Fl}nn has secured. They are of 
dates in i860 and '61. On organizing. 
Matthew J. McCafferty, subsequently 
a prominent figure in Worcester and 
Massachusetts affairs, was made cap- 
tain. Evidently the new soldiers got 
to work at once, and we find them 
marching, drilling, parading and tri])- 
ping the "light fantastic" as men in 
tmiform have done from time imme- 
morial. They took the nam^ of the 
Irish leader who. tried and executed 
for his participation in re1)ellion to 
British rule in Ireland, gave before his 
judges, ere sentence of death was pro- 
nounced, one of the most elocpient 
speeches ever uttered. For more than 
a century school boys have spoken 
tlie dying words of Robert Emmet, 
and to-day they are just as eloquent as 
when they fell from the lips of that 
orator and patriot. 

Though in 1859 Know-Xothings 
rode on their raids no more and, tnider 
the lead of Governor X. P. Banks, 
^Massachusetts was putting herself in 
excellent shape for the coming trial of 
war, the "Emmets" did not Ijecome a 
part of the State's military arm till 
1861. Their industry in the drill-room 
had not been in vain, and when trou- 
bles in Charleston Harbor began to 
foreshadow open hostilities, and the 
militia of the Commonwealth was ar- 
raying itself for the struggle, this ex- 
cellently equipped Worcester Com- 



224 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



paiiv. not in the militia, volunteered its 
services to t_iovernor John A. Andrew. 
Such action was all the more credita- 
ble since these young men had grown 
to honor one political party, and to 
heartily dislike another. Though the 
latter was in power, when it came to 
an issue between union and disunion, 
with them there was not one moment 
of hesitation, and they readil\- ottered 
all that they had, saying that they 
were readv to march at an hour's 
notice. M. S. McConville was the 
Captain, his First Lieutenant was 



Dwight Foster, tendered to the "Fm- 
mets" a place in the militia with im- 
mediate service, under the National 
Government. The Company was at 
once called together, the proffer was 
unanimously accepted, and the very 
next night, after the election of offi- 
cers, or the 20tli of April, as Company 
C of the 3d riattalion of Rifles, the 
"boys" were on their way to the seat of 
impending war, having as their asso- 
ciate companies the City Guards of 
Worcester and the Holden Rifles, bet- 
ter known among their friends as the 



H-»>' 



^ 



N. 








iS^ 






m% 



^ 



HEROES KII.I,i:il AT COLO HAKLloK JCXE 



Michael O'Driscoll of the "Jacksons," 
and the Second Lieutenant was M. J. 
McCafferty. recently Captain, and wdio 
years before had been offered the com- 
mand of the "Jacksons." Thos. O'Neill, 
later to fall at the head of a company 
in the 23th, was Third Lieutenant, and 
Maurice Melaven was Fourth. Ac- 
cording to the story as told by the late 
Major McCafferty himself. Governor 
.\ndrew. through .\ttornev-general 



"I-iare Ripes," and it is worthy of men- 
tion that the "Emmets" and "Hoi- 
dens," now marching to meet a com- 
mon foe, were old-time rivals wdien 
the men from the hills objected to the 
presence of the men with a l:)rogue. 

Were the whole story of the "Em- 
mets" in the War of the Rebellion to be 
told here, there would be no space left 
for the recital of later deeds. It must 
suffice to state that their three months' 



EMMl-ri' GL'AKUS, COMPANY G. 



225 



services were followed by years of stul)- 
born fighting throughout the war. Tliey 
formed the nucleus of Company E in 
the 25th, of Company I in the 50th, and. 
as individuals, they enlisted in all 
branches of the service and in almost 
every State organization. Wherever 
they went, whether as officers or en- 
listed men, they gave good accounts of 
themselves, and efifectually disproved 
every aspersion of those wretched days 
in the Know-Xothing fifties. How well 
they fought let the "stories of O'Neill, 
Daly and jMcConville tell. Captain 
"Tom" O'Neill, with his dying message 
to his mother of devotion to country, 
and with the folds of the flag pressed to 
his lips as he passed, will long remain 
an object lesson for Americans, whether 
of native or foreign birth. "Three of 
them." said General Josiah Pickett, 
"went down in the single battle of Cold 
Harbor, and when I asked McConville 
if he knew me, as he lay there, his life 
blood fast ebbing away, he evidently 
recognized me. for he touched upon a 
theme often discussed among the oiifi- 
cers. as he slowly and finally exclaimed, 
'Seven conscripts and a man,' appar- 
ently recalling in his dying fancy some 
of our talk over our common dislike of 
conscripted recruits." All of the "Jack- 
'ons" have gone where there is no dis- 
tinction of race nor creed, and, of the 
older generation of the "Emmet';." only 
a few remain to enjoy the later honors 
which have been won hv their sons. 

The war period put an end to active 
home work under the name of "Em- 
mets," but when the strife was over and 
the veterans came home once more, 
thev and like-minded friends organ- 
ized a military company which they 
railed "the Sarsfield Guards." after that 
soldier of fortune who had served under 
I'rench colors at Neerwinden and else- 
where in the Low Countries, losing his 
life finally at the battle of the Boyne in 
if)yo. but, wherever fighting, always 
steadfast in his hatred of the British 
foeman. Joseph H. Corbett was their 
Captain, and, though under another 
name, thev still aimed to carry along 



the nldrr memories of the "jacksons" 
and "ICnmiets." They were frequently 
seen in parade and they maintained all 
(if their traditional pride in everything 
mililarv. 



riuis matters progressed till Monday, 
Nov. 21st, 1881, when in response to a 
call there assembled in Integrity Hall 
fifteen _\oung men of Irish descent, who 
proceeded to organize a new company 
for military purposes and named it, 
like the one of twenty years before, the 
"Emmet Guards."' These originators 
were among the representative men of 
their people in the city and they made 
an excellent start. Their first Captain 
was Joseph H. Corbett. late of the 
"Sarsfields."' now merged or lost in the 
later Company. The First Lieutenant 
was John J. Hughes ; the Second, Wil- 
liam Regan, both of whom will be rec- 
ognized as subsequent captains, and 
Thomas F. McGauley was treasurer. 
As an independent company they won 
laurels from their superb discipline and 
drill, but it was not till 1887 that the 
Company became a part of the active 
militia of ^^lassachusetts. A company 
known as the Jackson Guards of another 
city in the Commonwealth had been 
disbanded by the Governor for ineffi- 
ciency, so on JNIay loth, 1887, after 
more than thirty years, our Worcester 
successors of the original "Jacksons" 
came at last into their own. "Time at 
last makes all things even," etc. The 
situation was largely brought about by 
Colonel Fred W. Wellington, so long 
a prominent figure in the military affairs 
of Massachusetts. The first appearance 
of the "Emmets" in camp was at [-"ram- 
ingham. July 19th. 1887. and they have 
been regular in their attendance since. 
On their return from this first camp, 
they paid a complimentary visit to 
Colonel Wellington to express their ap- 
preciation of his interest in their behalf. 
An honorary association was formed 
June Qth, 1887, just between the absorp- 
tion into the State's forces and the 
journey to the first camp. Jereniiali 



226 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




EMMF.T GUARDS, COMPANY G. 



227 



Murphy was chairman, Ricliar<l ()'I'"lynii 
was secretary, and he was sul)se(iuciitl\- 
elected historian, a position which he 
has filled with credit to himself and 
honor to the Company. 

With the ''Emmets" in the piping- 
times of peace, this narrative has little 
to do. The careful annalist keeps 
record of all games, contests, dances, 
excursions and episodes of whatever 
nature, but the printed story deals 
chiefly with the Company's experience 
when, in battle array, it stood for the 
flag and the rights of a people long op- 
pressed and long struggling to free 
themselves from foreign rule. 

1898. 

Though the wreck of the Maine was 
lying beneath the waters of Havana 
Harbor and distant baying of the dogs 
of war was distinctly heard, the annual 
observance of the birthday of Robert 
Emmet was held in March, as of yore. 
On the 3d, or the eve of the day itself 
which chances to coincide with that of 
America's Presidential inaugural, the 
actives heard an eloquent address in 
Mechanics Hall, wherein the Rev. Geo. 
\V. Pepper of Cleveland, Ohio, set forth 
the merits of the patriot and the wrongs 
of his country, while the veterans on 
the 4th, around the festive board, did 
equal justice to his memory. Perhaps 
the imminence of war gave added zest 
to the drills of March and April : cer- 
tainly there was no falling oiT in the 
ardor of the citizen-soldier. When, on 
the 29th of March, they had their an- 
nual visit from the Inspector General, 
J. L. Carter, he accorded to the '"Em- 
mets" the very highest praise in that, to 
express his sentiments most mildly. 
there was not in Massachusetts a better 
company. Arrangements were made 
for the observance of the anniversary of 
the Company just as if there was no 
possibility of the intervention of grim- 
visaged war. At tlieir Easter ball, given 
on the nth of April, when one hundred 
and fifty couples joined in the festive oc- 
casion, that a distant cloud was in the 
sky appeared only in the refrain of cer- 



tain stanza-, which graced a page of the 
e\ening's ijrogramme, the final verse 
running thus : 

"Liut if wc must go to mtct the ioc. 

.\nd leave our dearest homes; 
Tlien God have mercy on tliose Dons — 

Sagastas or Dclomcs — 
They will drop before our solid lines 

Like brown leaves in the fall: 
So make that countersign, "rejoice' 

At the Emmets' Easter Ball." 

As April progressed, various rumors 
readied the city as to what the number 
of men in the companies would be in 
case of war and, unofficially. Captain 
Moynihan was advised to be ready to 
make his maximum one lunidred men, 
but he did not deem it necessary to act 
upon this, for his waiting list .gave token 
of no trouble in that direction. At a 
Company meeting, April iith.it was 
voted unanimously to tender the ser- 
vices of Company G in case of war, and 
to notify Colonel Bogan, thus putting 
the ""Emmets" first among Worcester 
\olunteers. Sunday, April 24th, the 
Rev. Daniel F. ]\IcGillicuddy, at St. 
Stephen's Church, spoke with special 
reference to the impending duties before 
the Emmet Guards, and promised them 
the prayers of tlie failltful during all 
their service and perils. 

The action of Congress looking to a 
war with Spain over the wrongs of 
Cuba was taken April 19th, a day 
laden with ^lassachusetts memories; 
President McKinley issued his procla- 
mation calling for troops on the 23d, 
and Governor Wolcott followed with h's 
call to the State troops on the 28th. 
All this time the Armory in Worcester 
was a scene of about all the exciteinent 
that any one edifice could hold. W'hen 
not employed in their res]iective vo- 
cations, every actual and every would- 
be militiaman was at the Armory, 
cither drilling, discussing the chances 
of war or trying to insure an oppor- 
tutiity for enrollment. \\'hen the "Em- 
mets" came together. Monday the 25th. 
for their weekly drill, the crowd of in- 
terested people filled all the approaches 
to the shed, and that immense room 
they surrounded to the depth of many 
rows, thercbv cutting down, materially. 



228 



\\-ORrF.?TER IN THE SPANTSTI WAR. 




CaI-T. J. J. MOV.NIHAN. 

M. :•:. lliNES. Second LiEDT. J. !■. IIiiri.ev. 

( I IMM ISSION'KI) nFi'lc'ERS. i«g6. 



the space rc(|uire(l fur drill and evohi- 
tiuns. At last Captain Aloynihan was 
c<jni])cllcd til' forcibly regulate the pres- 
siu'c of the crowd ; at the same time 
there was a large force of the police 
present to assist in the maintenance of 
order. During the entire evening 
Corporal Corliss was in the Company 
room taking the names of those who 
wished to have a chance for service. 



riiDugh married men were disciiuraged 
from ennillment, some insisted on their 
rights tci gu if theyi chose, and in some 
cases their names were written. 

The evening of Friday, the 29th, 
brought out a great attendance at the 
Company room and the matter of vol- 
imteering was fully discussed. Lieuten- 
ant Hurley presided and spoke, setting 
forth the nature of the work before the 



EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 



229 



men and desiring to know liow inanv 
would be willing;; to suh-cribe their 
names. Every member of the Company, 
except two, wa.s present, and the absent 
ones sent word of their determination tn 
volimteer. Not a man failed to sign his 
name, and the newly enrolled bronght 
the number np to ninety-four, including 
the commissioned officers. .Such was 
the enthusiasm that a good start 
towards a regiment could have been 
made there and then. While the Com- 
jiany had all along thought that the 
i»th Rrginu-nt would be the tirst called 
out, it soon appeared that the 2n(l 
would report in camp earlier, but the 
"Emmets" were practically rea(h-. and 
though each day and night the\' re- 
paired to the familiar Armory, it was 
not so much for preparation as for talk 
and the comparison of notes. Thus 
Sunday, May ist, while the other com- 
panies were in the midst of l.nistle and 
hurry, the "Emmets" rather made it a 
day of rest, and their (|uartcr^ were less 
thronged than on an\ Any since the 
interest began. The sanie wa^ prac- 
tically true of Monda\-. 

Tuesday, the 3d of Ma\-, l)eheld tin- 
departure of the Worcester members of 
tlie 2d Regiment, and Company 
"G" had the pleasure of looking on and 
seeing how departure for actual war ap- 
peared. Many a time they had seen 
their fellows in the militia depart for the 
muster field and had given little thought 
to the sight, but this time they saw a 
cit\-, as it were, let loose just because a 
few scores of men in uniforms were 
marching away with the idea of seeing 
actual service. Fully a generation of 
nominal soldiers had been marching 
and drilling without an opportunit\- to 
see what war was like, and now the time 
has come. As the departing "boys" 
with their escort went by. and the im- 
mensity of the throng disclosed itself, it 
would not be strange if some of the 
"Enuiiets" wondered if the turnout on 
the following day could equal that of 
the 3d. There was a throng at the 
Armory Tuesday evening which tested 
the capacity of the room. Captain 



Mi>\nili,-m was cnnstanth' importuned 
fur an upportunity to enlist ; those wdio 
were sure of going were making the 
hnal arrangement for the morrow^ 's de- 
Iiarture. Meanwhile, in a banquet 
room, the honorarir> of the ("ompany 
were having a nieeling, in which neces- 
sarA- preparation for tiu- jjarade of the 
4th was furthered. John J. Riordan 
presided and set forth the objects of the 
meeting. John F. O'Connor and John 
l"". H. Alooney spoke with earnestness 
and eloquence, as also did Jeremiah 
Mur|)hy. who had been one of the "Em- 
mets" in the days of civil strife. John 
I. Coan, an honorary, prc'^ented each 
member of the Company a jiockel 
prayer boi >k. 

Tuesda\- had been rainy in the ex- 
treme and all the night rain had fallen, 
but at daybreak the .skies cleared up and 
the "Enunets" had the i)leasure of leav- 
ing home in dry attire and in view of 
nearlv ever^- man, woman and child in 
Worcester. The enthusiasm which had 
started the day liefore, on Wednesday 
reached its acme. If the disagreeable 
weather bad kej)t any one at home 
then, there was no such reason this day, 
and all were out. Before 8 a.m. the 
Company was at the Armory, every man 
finding something to do at this the final 
moment The assembly was sounded 
bv Nicholas J. Skcrrett, the newly en- 
rolled musician, and the resjionse was 
immediate. Into the drill-shed marched 
the soldiers and formed on the east 
side. Opnosite them were the honora- 
ries, whi'e the veterans were drawn up 
at the north end. When thus formed 
in a hollow scpiarc with the Company at 
"])arade rest." one of its mimber ap- 
pi'ared with the flag of Erin, the private 
])i-opcrU- of the men, all joining in vocif- 
erous applause: but this was only a be- 
ginning of what followed when the Stars 
and Stripes appeared. .\ little later 
?\lavor Rufus B. Dodge, Jr., entered, ac- 
comjianied by the Rev. Mgr. Thomas 
Criffin, Rev. D. F. .McGillicuddy, Gen- 
eral Josiah Pickett, General A. B. R. 
.^'prague. Colonel R. H. Chamberlain 
and Colonel E. H. Russell, all of whom 



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EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 



231 



were received w.th cheers. At a com- 
mand from Ca])tain Moynihan, the Com- 
pany knelt wlien the Rev. Father 
McGillicuddy offered prayer, every one 
uncovering. Then at "attention" the 
men stood and heard Father iMcGilli- 
cuddy in a brief address, and he was 
followed by Mayor Dodge and Mgr. 
Griffin. 

With the management in the hands of 
Colonel Fred W. AN'ellington, it might 
be expected that the line would be 
formed on time. The Colonel had an 
efficient staiif consisting of Chief, Lieu- 
tenant James Early; Surgeon, Dr. 
George W. McAleer; aids. Captain 
\Mlliam Flickey. John J- Rogers, Wil- 
liam J. Tansey. Patrick J- Rradshaw, T- 
Frank Ouinn and John J. Riordan : 
Bugler, Peter F. Sullivan. Promptly at 
9 o'clock a.m. the right of the line was 
taken by Post to, G. A. R., under the 
command of Daniel E. Burbank, having 
one hundred and fifty men. Fifty Sons 
of Veterans came next, and after them 
three hundred Holy Cross students 
marched, they having secured a holiday 
for the occasion ; they bore the college 
colors, viz.. purple, and small national 
flags and all along the route they gave 
their college yells : there were ninety 
members of the Catholic Young Men's 
Lyceum, and sixty boys from St. John's 
Parochial School, while thirty boys of 
the Classical High School followed 
after: then came uniformed men of the 
Consolidated Street Railway, Knights 
of Columbus, St. Paul's Lyceum, three 
companies of the A.O.H., Father ^ilath- 
ew and St. John's Cadets. St. Anne's 
Temperance Society, seventy-five men of 
St. John's Guild; nearly one hundred 
members of the Honorary Company 
marched under the direction of John J. 
Riordan, Daniel Downey, William H. 
Toner, Francis P. McKeon and T. J. 
McAulifife. The Emmet veterans were 
in command of Captain William J. Re- 
gan. After several carriages bearing- 
citizens, was a barge having aboard 
forty children of St. John's Parochial 
School, who made themselves heard by 
their songs and cheers. 



The Comjjany was filled to its max- 
imum, having seventy-four enlisted 
men and three commissioned officers. 
Everywhere along the route was a surg- 
ing mass of humanity. Few people in 
Worcester let the day jjass without a 
glance at the departing soldiers, and as 
for the families represented in the 
marching line, evidently no one had 
been left at home. As the "Emmets" 
passed the high wall in front of the 
Court House, they encountered the 
older pupils of theThomasStreelSchool, 
who saluted llieni with — 

"Tlie F.mincts are br.ivc, 
Tlio Kmmets are true. 
The Emmets are all riglit. 
And the Red. White and Blue." 

Then changing in to the strains of ".\mer- 
ica" thcv continued till the soldiers were 
out of hearing. The buildings along the 
route were elaborately decorated, and 
from many a window came words 
of cheer' as the line moved 
swiftlv l:)y. When passing the 
City Hall, on the southward way, 
the Company was presented a beautiful 
stand of colors by a committee of the 
Knights of Robert Emmet, consisting 
of Dr. John T. :McGillicuddy, James 
Cunningham and Patrick O'Brien. This 
was done without formality, Captain 
Moynihan receiving the flag for the 
Coiiipany. .At City Hall there was a 
large partv of officials and friends who 
greeted the men with heartiest cheers. Tt 
was here that the band struck up an air 
dear to every Irish heart, and listeners 
went wild with delight as they caught 
the strains of "The Wearing of the 
Green." Soon the line wheeled into 
Front Street, always a difficu't th'ng to 
do when excitement runs high. 'I'his 
time it reciuired a deal of persuasion 
and some force on the part of the police 
to make the way clear for the departing 
Company, but it was done and the street 
became a gauntlet, not of foes, but of 
friends who wanted to say "good-by" to 
associates who were on their way it 
might be to battle and death. It is safe 
to state that the street never held more 



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people than when the "iMiimets" 
marched through on the 4th uf May, 
1898. Throughout the progress "Cou- 
chee," the canine mascot of the Com- 
pany, kept his place, evidently jjroud of 
the distinction accorded him, though no 
blandishment from the outside throng- 
could draw him from the line. He plod- 
ded along as proud as any biped, wear- 
ing his blanket of green on which were 
the words, "I am going to Cuba; where 
are you going?" 

Long l)efore fnion Station was 
reached, it had become a crowding, 
seething mass of humanity, every mie 
intent on having ri ])arting word or 
hand-shake with the "Ijoys" as they em- 
barked. Even car roofs and those of 
offices in the train shed had been i)re- 
empted and cver\- inch of space wa< oc- 
cupied. It required the combined ef- 
forts of the police and certain well- 
placed and well-meaning friends to kec]) 
the crowds where a way might be made 
for the soldiers to clamber aboard I he 
train. Personal partings had been had 
elsewhere, so there was no d^■la\■ for 
last farewells, but now and then :> Innd- 
some bnuquet proclaimed that friiMids 
were delei-miiu-d that tlie nTi])ients 
sliould not go awa\' nnrenu-nib'T.-Ml 
While this scene is enacted, the bands, 
mindful of the ijroprieties, are ])l,iying 
".A.uld T.ang .'^yne" and "Tlir ( iirl T 
Left Behind Me." and it wa- under the 
spell of such sounds that the train 
moved out. leaving the nmltitnde satis- 
fied that \\'orcester hail given the 
"boys" .-I send-off that all concerned 
might well be proud of. 

On reaching South iM-amingham. the 
niarcli to Camp Dewey, already eslab- 
lislu'd by the 2(1 Rt-giment, wa> (|uickly 
made .-ind cor<lial greetings were ex- 
changi'd with the oilier Worcester boys 
who li.-id ])receded tlie "Emmets" by a 
single <lay. Tents were speedily occu- 
pied and \-ery soon the chief subject of 
conversation became the impending ex- 
aminations and the ]irobabilities of an 
early departure for the scene.^ of con- 
flict. In the evening came the first 
camp-fire, and it was appreci.'ited, not 




;\i.\[irr cfARDS in ( ami' dewey 



i-:mmet guards, coMr.\NV c. 



233 



only fur ils cheerful liglil, hut 
for its heat, quite coiiifortius;- in 
this night of early May. Fifteen fires 
were lighted throughout the camp, each 
one using a cord of wood, the same be- 
ing a gift from Colonel H. E. Converse 
of the Governor's Stafif. Each day 
brings this contribution from the large- 
hearted officer, and the builders of each 
pile try to make theirs the highest. A 
topmost object they designate as Jack, 
and, as the fire blazes up, the men watch 
to see Jack fall and Jill come tumbling 
after. 

Company C, as it made the trip from 
\\'orcester to camp, had the full number 
of men required, though several mem- 
bers of the Company had been dis- 
couraged from going on account of fam- 
ilies and other cogent reasons. Follow- 
ing are the names of those who were in 
line and drew the merited applause of 
patriotic Worcester : 

Captain, Jeremiah J. Moynihan, 
First Lieut., Matthew E. Hines, 
Second Lieut.. John F. Hurley, 
Sergeant. William E. McCann. 
Michael J. Horan, 
William F. Casey. 
Patrick J. Moynilian, 
Corporal. John J. Corliss. 
Charles Degnan, 
Michael McCartin, 
John D. ^IcSweeney, 
Thos. F. Lavin, 
James F. King. 
Musician. Peter F. Sullivan. 

Nicholas J. Skerrett. 



Patrick J. Prcndivillt 
John G. Green. 
John Larkin, 
Thos. F. Kelliher, 
John E. Casey. 
Henry \V. Baldwin. 
Patrick T- Sullivan, 
Michael J. Flynn, 
Michael C. Brophy, 
James A. Casey, 
James F. Earner. 
Frank H. Doran. 
Thos. F. Wiseman. 
James P. Holmes. 
Heiirv Sullivan. 



Timothy Leary, 
Daniel W. O'Connor, 
Edward R. Barker, 
Bernard F. Campl)ell, 
Chas. E. Kenney. 
John F. Murphy, 
James F. Sullivan, 
James F. McTicrnan. 
Hugh McGuire. 
John E. Sullivan. 
Robert H. Rooney. 
John J. Creaven, 
Henry Griffin. 
Frank P. Doyle. 
Edward Brad v. 



TIios. F. Foley, 
Frank E. Joyce, 
John H. Sweeney, 
John H. Horan. 
Geo. W. Brosnan. 
John Farrell. 

RE 

Patrick U. O'Keefe, 
Timotliy J. Burns, 
Michael Delaney, 
Patrick Dolan, 
John J. Fitzgerald. 
James Connelly. 
Edward H. Ryan. 
Edward Sullivan, 
Michael Garrett. 
John A. Kennedy, 
Edward H. Evons, 



James G. McGrath, 
James M. Barrett, 
Frank Forrest, 
Daniel Gardner, 
David J. Burke. 



Jolm O'Callahan, 
Frank J. Gilchrist, 
Frank Callahan, 
Thomas O'Brien, 
William H. Murphy, 
Charles G. Corcoran. 
Frank C. Leonard. 
Henry J. .Martin. 

John J. Lr)IIUs. 

Dennis Doyle. 



Thursday inducted the re'rtiits into 
the pleasures of drill at the hands of the 
non-commissioned officers, and all were 
put through a setting-up exercise for 
the sakt' of the jihysical examinations 
which were pending. Though many 
times there, camp did not seem to the 
old timers as it had done in former 
years when all was jollity and fun. The 
Com]-)an\- street is adorned with a ten- 
inch mortar ,=hcll. the gift to Privates 
John E. Casey and P. J. .%llivan by 
John O'Brien of South iM-amingham. 
the same having been picked up by him 
on ^larye's Heights, Fredericksburg, in 
1862, he being at that time a member of 
the "Emmets." Commissioned officers 
had to appear first before the examina- 
tion board. and when the Captain and liis 
Ueutenants were seen returning they 
were objects of the most careful scru- 
tiny by all the men. It soon appeared 
that Captain Moynihan and Lieutenant 
PTurlev bad passed the ordeal, but 
Lieutenant Tlines had gone down, nnich 
to the regret of himself and all his 
friends. He had been in the Company 
from its reorganization in 1881, and he 
had moved up, step by step, to his Lieu- 
tenancy by force of merit. It seemed 
too bad that he should be thrown out, 
but the rules were inexorable and he 
would not apply for re-examination. 
Dr. 1. T. McGillicuddy of Worcester 
visited the camp and looked over his 



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STAI'T 



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"EniiiK't" friciiils, priiiK uincinL;' tlieiii 
sound, ill his dpiiiidii. Rain ami the fail- 
ure of their First Lieutenant to pass the 
examination, luaile the nit^'lit in cani]) a 
dull one. 

Friday and .'•^aUirday. tin- <i(h and 7th. 
are menu iraMe in thai ihrii the en- 
listed men (if ('onipan\- "( i" hail their 
trial at the hands of Lieutenant Weaver 
and .Suri^eoii .Ma.^urn, and that all the 
original Company jiassed except four. 
Every non-ceimmissioncd officer went 
through and naturally the men felt not 
a little exalted, es]3ccially when they re- 
called the complimentary words of 
Lieutenant Weaver of the regular army. 
To make camp life a little ea.sicr, John J. 
Griffin of Worcester sent down twenty 
mattresses, and, to save the boys from 
excessive dam]iness, it is hinted that 
each one contained a sovereign specific 
against chills. In the distribution of gifts 



"(."ouchee'" was not forgotten, for there 
was a bed, too, for him ; and why not .■' 
He was already the best known party in 
Camp Dewey. There is a gradual 
straightening up in the matter of disci- 
pline and the regiment improves accord- 
ingly. That the_ vacant places may be 
filled at once, Lieutenant Hurley and 
.Sergeant AlcCann go to Worcester for 
recruits. Lieutenant 1 lines went also, 
Ijut he was not to return, and his old as- 
sociates very properly gave him part- 
ing cheers and sang, "The Vacant 
Chair." It was hard work for the officer 
to commaiul his feelings sufficientl)' to 
res])ond. 

Tiie first .Smida)- in camp for the 
"Fjiimets" was not an ideal one, as the 
wind blew a hurricane and, owing to 
some misunderstanding at home, the ex- 
Iiected visitors did not materialize. 
Sninehow. the impressiim had ffone 



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235 



abroad in Worccsli^T that citizens wmild 
not 1)0 admitted to the camp, so they 
stayed away, but the soldiers had their 
religious service, and the Worcester men 
of the Ninth were conspicuous for their 
white gloves, overcoats and the prayer 
books so recently presented to them. The 
service was conducted in the mess-house, 
and Rev. Fr.J. D.Colbert of Hopkinton 
officiated in the absence of the Chaplain. 
An altar had been improvised at one end 
of the room and fully 1200 men were 
present, many attending from other reg- 
iments. 

From this time forward till the last 
dav of May, the Ninth was to be in a 
ferment of excitement as to when it was 
to depart, and what its destination. 
Hope deferred made many a heart sick, 
and the would-be fighters of Spain at 
times thought their lives in camp any- 
thing but what they had pictured real 
armv life to be. However, there is 
something doing every day and very 
small items will create a deal of conver- 
sation. JNIany a time the regiment was 
on the point of leaving, but the next day 
found it still in Camp Dewey. On the 
loth. Tuesdav, Ciovernor Wolcott made 
his appearance, was cordially greeted as 
he deserved, and every soldier wondered 
what his mission was. Whatever his 
errand, it did not seem to especially af- 
fect the status of the Ninth. 

The formal celebration of the Com- 
panv anniversary, due this day, and for 
which a committee had been appointed, 
was not had, more important business 
being in hand, but many of the boys 
thought of it jnst the satne. However. 
Captain Mo\nihan was not allowed to 
forget it, since his fellow members of the 
Worcester police force sent down to 
him a brierwood ])ipe and a quantity of 
tobacco. 

The next day, or the nth, the "Em- 
mets"' were sworn into the U. S. service 
at 1 1 o'clock a.m. . }^Iany familiar faces 
were missed from the ranks and corre- 
sponding new ones appear. The failure 
of First Lieutenant Hines to pass the 
physical requirements resulted in the 
promotion of Second Lieutenant Hur- 



ley and the advancement of First Ser- 
geant William E. ]\IcCann to the vacant 
place. Through these changes, Second 
Sergeant AL G. Horan became the or- 
derlv, and he made an excellent one. 
His comrades recite with pride the fact 
that, having committed to memory the 
names of all the "Emmets," from first to 
last, he never used a book, but at roll- 
call went through the entire list me- 
moritcr. In this respect, "G" Com- 
panv was quite the equal of the reg- 
tdars. 

Had the Governor any power as an- 
intercessor for the deposed officers, it 
was evident that he failed to use it. 
Private llrosnan is ]xistmaster at the 
regimental headquarters, and I'eter h. 
Sullivan becomes a member of the non- 
conunissioned regimental stafif. he l>eing 
one of the two principal nuisicians. 
Fifty Knights of Robert Ennnet came 
down from Worcester with a large silk 
national flag, which J. IT. Halpin pre- 
sented to the Company, wishing every 
one a successful campaign. Captain 
!\roynihan happily accepted in an ap- 
propriate speech, the flag, however, had 
to bo carried back to the "Emmet" 
rooms in the .\rmory. since it could not 
be borne by the Company. 

The mustcr-in of the Ninth was ac- 
complished five minutes before that of 
the Eighth., so it stood next to the Second 
in I'oint of senioritv. yet the rivalrv was 
intense as to which should leave Camp 
De\ve\- first. Had our boys any way of 
inlhiencing the War Department, they 
would have been off. with or without 
their full complement of men, and, as for 
c(|uipmcnts. they would have trusted to 
I'nividence for them. When they did 
get awav. they found that some states 
had very little notion of what regiments 
should possess when they reported for 
dutv. Happily, the leadership was not 
in the hands of the boys and they had to 
wait till the proper time came. During 
these days the "Emmets" heard the .Ar- 
ticles of War read and explained, and the 
transition from Caterer James E. -Mc- 
Neil of Natick to Company cooks was 
effected. .\t breakfast. May 12th. be- 



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237 



gan regular army rations ami, though 
the caterer's dishes were used, absti- 
nence from butter and milk was experi- 
enced. Timothy H. P.urns, who had 
been \k the regulars, was made chief 
cook, ^nd Frank Doyle became his as- 
sistant. \'isitors from the home city are 
numerous, and many of them do not 
forget to bring along items which 
cheer the hearts and minds of the sol- 
diers. 

The departure of the .2d Regiment on 
the 1 2th left a large vacuum on the camj) 
ground and the \\'orcester boys were 
lonesome, for visiting had been a 
popular diversion among the companies 
from the Heart of the Commonwealth. 
Then c^iye additional anxiety lest the 
Eighth l^uld precede the Ninth in 
getting off; and when on the morning of 
the 13th, Colonel Pew's boys were seen 
striking their tents, those of the Ninth 
were nearly frantic, but when the move- 
ment developed into a simple exercise 
of striking and pitching tents, the over- 
anxious lads cooled down a bit. Quar- 
termaster Sergeant J. F. Corliss, who 
was promoted from the corporalcy, is be- 
coming a very useful official, and, owing 
to his thoughtful services, the men are 
faring as to rations considerably better 
than those in some of the other com- 
panies. Evidently the Sergeant ha- 
talents in the hotel running line. -At 
about 10 o'clock, in the evening of the 
13th, a large part of the 8th Regiment, 
apparently, went wild in their expecta- 
tion that they were to get away first, and 
were to go to Chickamauga. In their 
mad delight they tore through the 
streets of the Ninth, doing their best, in 
the language of the day, "to rub it in" 
to the boys who were to be left. Some 
of them packed up their superfluous ef- 
fects and sent them ofT, so certain were 
they that the auspicious day for them 
had come. Perhaps there was no con 
nection between this irrujition of the 
Eighth and the desire of the "h^mmets" 
to visit home, but many of them, with 
their friends of other companies, having 
left camp other than by the "straight 
gate." had to return under escort and tn 



learn that I'nited States soldiering is 
not fun. but downright l)usiness. 

.Saturday, the two regiments were re- 
viewed by the Governor, and he was 
|)leased to say pleasant words in lichalf 
of the .\inth, to which Colonel Bogan 
re]ilied. 

The 15th brought another Sunday in 
cam]) and religious services were held in 
tlie o])en air, an altar having I)een ar- 
ranged at Colonel Piogan's tent. The 
officiating clergyman was the Rev. Fr. 
Michael Delaney of South i'Vaming- 
ham. .\gain fullv 1200 men were sin- 
cere worshippers, ghid of an opportunity 
to testify of their obligations t(5 Cod. 
Iiut un])ropitious rain cut out the parade 
which the Colonel was anxious to have 
in the afternoon. However, the visitors 
came and the dampness gave the boys 
a chance to loan hats and capes to the 
fair ones who otherwise might get dan- 
gerouslv wet, and many a Ind laughed to 
see how \'enus appeared when ajipareled 
in th'- armor of Mars. To Captain 
Moynihan, some thoughtful friend sent 
a box of S])anish cigars with the clieer- 
ful injunction. "P)Urn tlie .'Spaniards 
while waiting to eat them." 

Once more it is the lot of the Ninth 
to sav "good-bv" to departing friends, 
since the Eighth really gets away on the 
I Mb, and a larger vacancy than ever is 
evi<lcnt on the "old camp ground." Our 
boys did the polite and gracious act in 
seeing their friends ofT. yet they could 
not suppress a wonder as to just what 
so much energy as they knew they pos- 
sessed was held back for. However, 
there are less rivals on the field now and, 
in their new brown uniforms, they have 
oceans of space to gambol in. \\'orces- 
ter friends are not oblivious of the 
gnawing appetites of the men in camp, 
and accordingly, through Michael L. 
Russell, they send down a goodly quan- 
tity of pies and puddings. Possibly 
some of the people at home remembered 
the old ballad, and, knowing how badly 
the boys felt over being left, they 
thought thev would give them a chance 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR 



■■Hunk!, of colli pudding and pit'cc-s of pie, 
My nianima gave to nu- il 1 would not cry." 

To further relieve the iiiehmchuly of 
the hour, a tiu pan euiieert i>v confusion 
is had and the ear detects amidst the din 
the words, "Remember the Maine, re- 
member the Maine, the Irish Ninth, tu 
h — 1 with Spain," the Sixth introducing 
such variation in the third hue as then 
name and number sug.y^est. 

Tuesday is a ihUl da\, there are ru- 
mors of going to I.ong Island and to the 
Philippines, and the Cnlnnel declares his 




Lawrence J. L,.,,an. 
I,K-utenant-coloncl Ninth Regiment. Ma«s.. T. S. \'. 

readiness to go anywhere, but the nec- 
essary summons is not heard. Mean- 
time there is drill for all and the sol- 
diers make the best of it. Orders come 
for the going of the Sixth, and il 
looks as though the Ninth woulil be 
"the last rose of summer, left 
blooming ahnie." In the even- 

ing, led by the regimental band under 
the direction of Chief T.ugler James F.. 



Sullivan, the whole regiment marched to 
the headquarters of the Sixth, and with 
that body appeared at Colonel Wood- 
ward's quarters, where they cheered him 
and the band played "Auld Lang Syne" 
and "Farewell." but from Colonel \V. 
thev got only a bow instead of a speech, 
for which they clamored. This sort of 
fun was kept up till long after "taps," 
and it took about all the authority the 
officers had to restore the quiet befitting 
a well-ordered camp. 

Still continues the perirul of cxpect- 
,-incv. The Sixth is packed ready for the 
final orders and the Ninth is as ever on 
the anxious seat. Their friends have 
conie down from Worcester and re- 
turned so many times that "good-bys" 
have been worn almost threadbare. It 
is pleasant to meet them and to use the 
nice things which they l)ring, but it is 
a prettv dull kind of war. There is 
atiolher last night of frolic with the 
boys of the Sixth, and poetic talent is 
drawn upon for rhymes like these: 

■■Oh Blanco, Blanco— Bunco rare. 
Oh. vou"rc an awful bluff; 

lUit when the gth will go down there 
They'll make you cry, enou.e;h." 

.\s usual, rumors are rife and in their 
luinds the men are ordered to all parts 
ni the habitable globe, and whatever the 
st.-ite of depression they never lack for 
subjects of conversation. Governor Wol- 
coit makes his accustomed visit, givmg 
commissions and advice to the regiment 
;ibout to depart. It was late in the 
evening of the lOth that a man at- 
tempted to run the guard and a deal of 
excitement was the result. To the brd- 
liant imagination he was a spy or em- 
issary of S|)ain, bent on doing some 
mischief to the honest campers waiting 
for the word "go." Whatever he was, 
the episode was a boon to the camp, 
since it served for an offset to the tedium 
of waiting. To the heated imagination 
,,f soiue of the boys, a large slice of 
Cuba had bv some hocus pocus been 
moved close i>v the guard line of Camp 
Dewey. Fridav. the 20th, witnessed the 
o-oing' of the Sixth, and now the Ninth 
has t"he field all to itself, yet it is not 
liroud thereat. 



EMMET CrAKDS. COMPANY C, 



239 



In the evciiiiii:^'. td dv'iw a\va\ <hill carr 
and to chanj^c the sul)j(jct from Spanish 
spies et al., a dance is improvised, a real 
old-fashioned stagf dance, and wuh 
music and the whirl of feet the hovrs 
pass from " to 10.30 p.m. Saturday, the 
2ist, comes Congressman Fitzgerald 
from Boston, and he is always enter- 
taining. The spy fracas resolves itself 
into a hricklayer from Charlestown, 
somewhat off his "lay" through tarrying 
too long with the ruby. Sunday brought 
10,000 visitors who enjoyed the dress 
parade of the regiment. Tlv; crowd 
was the largest of any since the opening 
of the camp, \\'orcester sending down a 
well-laden contingent to make happy 
the boys and to show the estimation in 
which they are held at home. The 
morning religious services were con- 
ducted by Chaplain IMurphy, and in the 
improvised choir sang Daniel W. 
O'Connor, P. J- O'Keefe, Henrv Martin 
and Sergeant P. J. Moynihan, all mem- 
bers of Company G. On JMonday, the 
procuring of ten days' rations seemed to 
the men like anything but an inmiediatc 
departure. The rules of camp are be- 
coming more and more rigorous and 
every da\' the men are remindeil that 
this is not an old-fashioned week's tour 
of duty. The regiment receives the 
gift of one thousand prayer-books from 
the Rev. P. 'SI. O'Connor of Arlington, 
a brother of ^^fajor j\l. J- O'Connor of 
the Ninth. With those presented before 
leaving Worcester, the "Emmets" have 
a double portion. .\t l)attalion drill, 
owing to the absence of Major Dono- 
van, Captain ]\Ioynihan has command 
and does his part handsomely. 

On or about the 24th a large gang of 
camp followers or, better, hangers-on. 
are expelled and their room is much 
better than their company. By trading 
flour with a Natick baker for bread. 
Company G is well served, but frequent 
rains tend to make camp life too damp 
for comfort. Hearts were cast down, 
on the 23th, by the reception of orders 
directing the separation of the regi- 
ment and the locating of its several 
parts on the Rhode Island coast. For- 



ltmatel\ before such knowledge could se- 
riously impair the average Ninth Regi- 
ment a])i)etite, the disagreeable order 
was cotuitermanded and men again 
breatlied more freely, having found that 
some kinds of going were worse than 
staying. Incessant rains reduce the 
company street to the conditions told 
of by the fathers when they sampled 
Virginia mud in the si.xties, but there is 
a chance for relief near by the sons, for 
they proceed to the vacated camp of the 
Eighth and. taking up the floors where 
tents had been, proceed to lay ;i wooden 
pavement for the good of the i)ublic: 
and this is all the more necessarv, since 
rough weather has put many a foot 
through its shoe almost on the ground. 
The reception of a check for $50 by the 
Captain from James Logan of \Vorces- 
ter came mo,st opportunely, and two 
bo.xes of shoes and some rubbers go far 
towards relieving inmiediate wants. .\ 
better receiA-ed from a friend in the 
Eighth, now in camp in Chickamauga. 
Ga.. assures the boys of the Ninth tliat 
there are conditions worse than remain- 
ing in Camp Dewey. 

Thursday, the _>'ith, brought an inei- 
ijent liable lo liajipen when men are long 
in eani]). A man. having ,-i horse and 
wagon heavily loaded with what seemed 
to be army supplies, is disco\-ered near 
the main entrance, and when an examin- 
ation is made suspicions prove to be 
well founded. When the establishment 
is taken to headquarters and the entire 
contents inventoried, above half a ton of 
articles is found which clearly belong 
to the camp. They are placed in the 
care of Sergeant J. J. Corliss of the 
"Emmets" and the driver of the wagon 
is put into the guard house. The man 
claimed to have bought his load from 
dififercnt quartermasters of the regi- 
ment, but was unable lo identify any of 
them. When brought before the civil 
court in South Framingham, he was 
fined $25 for his theft and his goods 
were confiscated. 

The 27th. Friday, had contradictory 
orders, at first to jiroceed to Rhode 
Island, in half an hour to be conn- 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPAN'ISII WAK. 




tcniiandcd, and more agreeable di- 
rections were given to make ready to go 
to Dunn-Loring. on the Virginia side of 
the Potomac, near Washington. N<n- 
withstanding the rain, there i-; a dr"ss 
parade at 5 p.m. Captain jMoynihan is 
Officer-of-the-day. and during its hours 
he received ffmi Worcester friends, for 
the benefit nf the Company, a iiox of 
mending m:ileria'., which is a gift m the 
right (hrection. 

'X(.w that orders have really come to 
send the regiment away, there is a 
dearth of cars and a wait is inevitable 
while convevance is looked up. Mean- 
while the bovs are shining up each and 
everv article of wearing apparel and 
their etpiipments that the going forth 
may be up to the standard. .\ dense fog 
overspreads the cam]) in the evening of 
the 2Rth. but it doi-- not prevent I'at- 
rick Powers, the boy servant of the 
Company, finding in the toe of one of 
the sock's given iiim by the Captain, the 
same having been sent fr.-m Worces- 
ter, a crisp' one-dollar l)ill. That the 
circle niav be complete, a letter is re- 
ceived bv the Captain asking who the 
luckv finder is. The 29th is Sunday, 
and all records of attendance of visitors 
are broken. The average of estimates 
of the number present is 20,000, and the 
last Sunday in camp is memorable. Tlie 
afternoon incident was the presentation 
to the Ninth bv the A. O. H., of Boston. 



of a set of colors through the Hon. 
John F. Fitzgerald, and their reception 
bv Colonel Bogan. The "Emmets" are 
enjoying a quantity of light underwear 
and socks sent down by the Volunteer 
AidAssociation, seventy-five sets, the box 
arriving in the care of Police Inspector 
Patrick O'Day and William J. Tansey.. 
secretary of' the "Emmets" honorary 
corps. ' Monday, the 30th, saw little 
doing, save the reception of visitors, 
who pour in to have just one more 
handshake before the breaking up. It 
is Alcmorial Day elsewhere, but the 
present rather than the past holds the 
attention of soldiers in Camp Dewey. 

Tuesday brings the last day of May, 
and also the very last day in camp. 
Smiling skies ushered in the 3Tst, and 
at 0-3° the tents went down, knapsacks 
were' packed, and a "get ready" air per- 
vaded evervthing. Noon gave the lie 
to the promise of the morn, since then 
rain began to fall, but at 2.30 p.m. a hol- 
low square was formed and the regi- 
ment saw in its own behalf what it had 
witnessed for the Second, Eighth and 
Sixth, viz., the Governor in the act of 
presenting commissions and giving the 
men a hcartv scn<l-off. Long weeks of 
waiting and preparation had their effect 
in making the Ninth easily the equal, 
some said the best, appearing lot of men 
who had marched away from the camp. 
There is the usual line of interested 
people to sec the tri]) to the station at 
South Framingham, and as the way to 
Dunn-Loring leads through Worcester, 
the "Emmets" arc to have, what was 
denied to the other companies, a fare- 
well in the very Heart of the Common- 
wealth. Before getting away, Mr. M. B. 
Lamb and P. J. McManus of Worces- 
ter, representing the honoraries of the 
"Emmets." presented to Captain Moyni- 
han for the Comi)any, a purse of $250, 
and a like amount is to be given to^ the 
families of the soldiers as need arises. 
Speeches were short. l>ut both that of 
the giver and the receiver were to the 
point. There w^-re three sections of the 
train conveying the regiment, and the 
Worcester Company was in the second. 



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241 



The first part passed through Union 
Station at 3.10 p.m.. and the immense 
throng gave it a cordial greeting, but 
its effusions were ratlier for tlie ne.xi 
section, vvhicli rolled in at 5.20. 

The police had roped off certain pur 
tions of space and intended to have all 
the greetings and partings done accord- 
ing to regulations, but who ever heard 
of such plans working as projected? 
When the cars were in the station and 
Worcester friends saw Worcester boys, 
the ropes were of no more account than 
tow strings, and the crowds of humanity 
surged up to the platforms and windows, 
wild in their anxiety for one more word 
with the loved soldier boy. An old 
man who had been helped to the sta- 
tion, under the mad impulse of the 
hour, pushed his way through the 
throng and reaching tlie hand oi his 
son, exclaimed. "I am proud of vou, niv 
son. and may God have mercy on you 
and save you from all harm." Not- 
withstanding the tumult there were 
those to sav "amen" to this fervent 
prayer. There was rajiid talking dur- 
ing the moments of the halt, and even 
"Couchee" had his share of applause, 
clad in his green lilanket and hat. So 
charmed was he with his reception that 
he escaped from his friends, but some 
thoughtful friends captured him and 
put him aboard the last section with an 
injunction to return him to his owners, 
though a telegram was received from the 
Company directing that the mascot be 
sent on bv express. A sad cloud fol- 
lowed the passing of the secotid divi- 
siiin of the train. f<ir fmni the third sec- 
tion was taken the unconscious form of 
Private Charles I. Dohert\- of Company 
I, a South Boston boy who was struck 
by a watering spout as the train passed 
through Westboro, and he was leaning 
far out of the car window. The minis- 
trations of the Catholic Church were 
given him in the station and thence he 
was carried to the City Hospital, but 
death came a little before 7 o'clock, a 
sad ending for a da}- that had l^egun so 
joyously. When the Worcester people, 
on and off the trains, were exchanging 



greetings, nothing of this calamity was 
known. 

It would be thought that all the people 
in Wiircester who cared to see the sol- 
diers en finite were at the station, but 
as the train went over the bridge at 
.New Worcester, fully tiirec hundred 
peo]ilc were stationed tliere to wave 
with handkerchiefs a last "good-by." 
Now the boys are really off. This is 
the way they long have sought and 
their hearts are glad at the fervency of 
the demonstrations all along the line. 
-Apparently every one knew of their 
coming, and the evening afforded an op- 
portunity for all to throng the stations 
as the cars swept through. At Chester, 
there are a brass band and a bonfire, 
Init the climax to local display is had in 
I'lttsfield. Rooming cannon announce 
the approach of the train, and central 
Berkshire gives up its thousands to 
swell the chorus of happy greetings for 
the soldiers southward bent. While the 
bands play the "Star-spangled Banner." 
every officer and man is presented with 
a paper box by the girls in the assemblv 
and, when opened, each box revealed 
not only an appetizing array of eatables, 
Intt a large assortment of religious de- 
vices and emblems. The donor's name 
was also contained, with a request for a 
word from the recii)ient when the vi- 
cinity of the Spanish lines is reached. 
I'.y way nf immediate compensation, the 
girls sought button souvenirs, thus rob- 
bing every coat sleeve they could reach, 
and one handsome fellow lost a part of 
the sleeve itself. Whenever feminine 
fingers closed over the coveted brass, 
something had to give. .'^till no 

soldier-boy was heard ct)mplaining. 
To tluni it was a fair exchange. To 
crown all, a tank containing sixty gal- 
lons of coffee was placed on each sec- 
tion, and on the covers were tlie words, 
"This is hot coffee and Pittsfield wants 
the 9th Massachusetts to make the 
leni|)erattn-e for the Spaniards twice as 
liot when the\- meet them." This was 
signed by David Evans. Harrv Van 
Dusen. John McOuaid, J. D. Murphy, 



242 



\\()Kt liSTER IN THE Sl'ANISH WAR. 




N()\'-l( )MMISSI( >NKIi 



ila 



(). C. I'ish. n. D. Sisson, Gci 
loran, Roscoe j. Smith. 

Among tlie many notes found in the 
provision 1)oxt'S. was the following, 
signed by the name of W. H. Chamber- 
lain, who had been a soldier in the 3<'>th 
Illiirois. It speaks the sentiments of all 
the citizens of the Bay State as the reg- 
iments were leaving for the seat nf war: 

l'ittstk-1<l, ^[ay ,U, iSoS^ 
T.. tin- soldiiT ulin f,'ets this l>i.x of luncli. 

(J(k1 bless and hriiis; ymi linnic safe and 
soniul is the prayer and wish of an old vete- 
ran, who knows what war is, to be wounded 
and left on the battle-field, captured, etc., 
etc. Will be |)lcased to hear if you enjoyed 
the lunch. You are going down into Tenn. 
fl supoosel onto same ground I marched 
and fought over. 

Your friend. 



If the "lunmets" replied to all the re- 
quests for letters had on this occasion, 
they must have materially added to 
Uncle Sam's postofifice business, for not 
onlv were there names in the boxes, but 
those written in autograph books were 
liable to lead to correspondence. Thus 
at the request of a small boy one of the 
gallant lieutenants of the Company in- 
scribed his name and title in an album, 
giving little attention to the matter, but 
when later he received a number of Mas- 
sachusetts papers, describing this en- 
thusiastic reception, he began to wonder 
who the donor could be and, finding the 
name of a lady on one of them, he made 
bold to write and ask how she had come 
to know of him and his address. In re- 
ply he had a pleasant note in which he 



KMMKT crARDS, CUMl'AXY G. 



243 



was cnji liiu-il til l;ucss, and l;ik'ss ami 
then think a Htllc, and his conchisiun 
was tiiat tlic knowledge must have come 
from tiie casual favor to the lad in 
Pittsfield. .Many iicistas'c stamjis have 
been devoted in this way tcj the enhanc- 
ing of the nation's revenues. 

It is 12.30 a.m. of the first day of 
June when the Hudson River is crossed 
and the train stops in .\lbany. and here, 
for the first time, the "Emmets" heard 
the nielanchnly news of Doherty's 
death. While this is not a sleejiing 
Irain, it is reasdiiable to suppose that 
some sleeping was done both before 
and after leaving New York's capital, 
but night shut out all the scenerv of the 
Hudson, and 6 o'clock in the morning 
found the boys in Jersey City, having 
run down on the West Shore. When 
section three runs alongside of two, 
"Couchee" is returned to his guardians 
and once more the dog star is in the as- 
cendant. The stay is short, and in lif- 
teen minutes Massachusetts men are 
rushing through New Jerse\-. The\ 
take the Philadelphia & Readin:; 
route and are the observed of all Jersey- 
men as the train l)ears them along. They 
note the Delaware in crossing, and soon 
they pause in Philadelphia. At 10 
o'clock they are in Wilmington and at 
12.30 thev arc in P>altimore. While the 
reception lierc was nothing like that ac- 
corded the Sixth on the 2Tst of Max', it 
was not wanting in many indications of 
interest. \\'ashington is entered at 2.30 
and the halt is the briefest possible. 
.Another half hour and Dunn-T.oring, 
the destination, is reached. The hciurs 
are for the first section of the train. 
The "Emmets" and their section did not 
arrive till 6 o'clock. 

Dunn-Loring! "What's in a name T^" 
is the query of the great dramatist. So 
far as the foregoing station is concerned, 
the answer would be, "\"ery little, asi^'e 
from the letters which make up the 
words." \\'hen or why Loring was 
"done" no one can tell, but there are 
only five or six houses to attest the 
doing. From the point of debarkation 
to the camp intervene three hot. dusty 



miles, and umler the hea\ y ni.arching 
Inirdens of the Ninth they are long 
ones, but to the credit of the men it 
nuist be stated that every (jne ke])t his 
lil;icc-, .-md neither stragglers nor I'.os- 
pital hail any tales to tell of failures and 
human weakness, though if each mati 
were to speak his real feelings, there 
were many luoments when the ordeal 
suggested umiualitied rest, r.im]) Rus- 
sell A. Alger is located on the old I'air- 
fax estate and is three miles from h'air- 
fax Court House, so identified with the 
\\'ar (if the Rebellimr It i- .•ilniosl as 
large as the District n\ (Hhnnhia and 
has thirly-two regiments in camp, and 
twd more are expected, ft is said to be 
seven miles square. .\t anv rate, it is 
so large that the Cith Masscichusetts, 
which ])receded the .Ninth to this point, 
is cam])ed two miles awav. 

The arrival of the regiment is a sig- 
ti.al for tlu' jolliest kind (if a reception 
by the (irg.-iniz-itidii^ alre;i(l\' there. l".s- 
peci.-dly was ibis the case with the "th 
I'liiKiis, which was just a day old in 
camp, and when the men saw the green 
H-ig of l->in. they shouted with delight, 
for they had lieen denied the privilege 
of inifinding theirs. Rock-ribbed Xew 
luigland thus showed her more liberal 
l)rinciplcs. The band of the 33(1 ^[ichi- 
gan won the everlasting regard of the 
Ninth through playing "The Wearing 
of the Creen" as the Massachusetts 
"b(i\>" came into canqi. 

Rations for the Ninth were still on the 
way. so the invitation of the (.'hicago 
boys to come over and sup with them 
was gratefully accepted and the pressed 
ham sandwich with a cup of coffee filled 
a long-felt want. 

-\ tem]iorarv site for the regiment is 
taken on what proves to Ijc the parade 
ground, hence thoughts are early turned 
towards where the regular lodgment 
shall be. Nothing l>etter than rubber 
blankets keep sleepers of? the ground 
during the first night. It is announcetl 
that each company will have to clear 
s])ace for itself in the nearby forest, and 
Company B, backwoodsmen from Bos- 
ton, get onto their job at once. The 



244 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



newcomers are natural explorers and 
they speedily fintl in the woods ancient 
breastworks and ruins which clearly in- 
dicate the Civil War of the sixties. 
Water is a scarce article, though arte- 
sian wells somewhat relieve the trouble, 
but for a bath the bather must go two 
miles, not altogether encouraging to 
cleanliness. Fruits and vegetables are 
to be had ircni hucksters, who are in 
constant e\idence. Ice water is a lux- 
ury not supplied by the government. 

Thursday, June jd, brings the wel- 
come informatinn that the regiment 
will remain wliere it is for the present. 



takes with him Peter 1". .^uUivan, one of 
the principal musicians, to purchase 
bugles, that the outfit may be correct. 
A large delegation from the Sixth comes 
over to give the Ninth a serenade. Later 
in the night, one of the flood-abounding 
storms for which the region is noted, 
swept over the camp. Those who had 
not taken the precaution to dig trenches 
around their resjiective tents, had occa- 
sion to realize that the water famine, 
hitherto deplored, was thoroughly 
broken. The morning of the 3d re- 
vealed a prospect, where there were 
drains, not unlike an irrigation field in 




A I'KA.MiXciiAM mi:m(H.;n'. 



hence the croc iked ways are made 
straight and an air of permanency is at 
once assumed ; decorations in the line 
of tree branches being found in the 
wcickN which al)oimd hard by. Captain 
Carl Wagner, a former Worcester bo) 
and man. nnw at tlie liead of 
C(im]iany L, ^^^d .Michigan, .'^ims of 
X'eterans, gi\es Captain .Mnynihan 
a call, and pleasure at llie meeting 
is mutual. ("(ingres.>man b'itzgerald, 
whci still maintains a sort of guardian- 
ship of the regiment, comes over from 
\\'ashington and speaks pleasant word> 
to tlie ))ovs. When he goes awav, he 



Colorado, while ettorts to dry the con- 
tents of the tents, under the burning sun, 
suggested Chinese laundries. Somehow, 
rations do not appear in quantities to 
satisfy the boys, but their purses enable 
them to help out with items, such as 
eggs, berries and milk, bought from tlie 
farmers. 

On its second day in camp, the Ninth 
surprised its neighbors by a full dress 
paraile and passage. .Xs yet, no other 
bodv had ventured more than a battalion 
exhibit. Of course the band was missed 
and the regiment could not step to the 
music of the voluntef-red band of the 



KMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 



245 



/th Illiiujis. so the buglers were de- 
peiidetl upon entirely and thereby 
g-reatly impressed the \\'estcrners. 

While complaints both loud and deep 
were heard at Camp Dewey on account 
of delay there, the boys are .sflad enough 
that they are fully equipped, for the 33d 
Michigan is not armed and the Tennes- 
seeans are not even uniformed. They 
realize that delays are not always the 
worst policy. Afterwards, when it ap- 
peared that the Massachusetts men had 
two suits of uniforms, then Tennessee 
neighbors dubbed them "dudes," and it 
was said that they were coming over, 
some dark night, and even up their pov- 
erty with the Bay State wealth. Whether 
they ever really contemplated this or 
not, they certainh' practiced the better 
part of valor and let the well-suited 
boys alone, 

A large bundle of Worcester Tele- 
grams puts the "Emmets" in line with 
Worcester matters and they feel to bless 
the man who invented printing, 

Saturday finds the "Emmets"" getting 
used to their camp, securing floors for 
their tents from the forest resources, 
and making the acquaintance of men 
from other states. A noteworthy call is 
had from Chaplain Hoyt of a Pennsyl- 
vania regiment, and he tells Captain 
Moynihan that he enlisted in the "Em- 
mets"' in Reliellion davs and served as a 
dnmmier bov thoughout the war. 
Though a man sevent_\- years of age. he 
surprises all by jumping into his saddle 
when he rode away. He had tried to 
enlist in the City Guards when a boy, 
but had been rejected on account of his 
lack of stature. Another visitor, re- 
ceived most gladly for his familiar face, 
is Peter McLoughlin, a Worcester boy 
now in the Law .School of Georgetown 
College. The serenade of the Massa- 
chusetts Si.xth is repaid this evening by 
fully one-half of the regiment going 
over to the camp of their old friends 
and giving them a musical reminder, 
and by way of refreshments they had all 
the water they wanted. In the daily 
routine of camp there is no mess-house, 
each man getting his supply from the 



cooks ;inil inipro\ises his own table and 
chair. He is his own dishwasher also. 
The culinary duties, at present, are jx-r- 
formed by cook McCarten. assisted by 
Farrell and llurke. who have been 
dubbed" I )el ia" and". Mehi table"" respect- 
i\ely. W.itor is scarce and the boys 
have to bring ii from a distance, each 
taking his tuni. the same coming around 
very often, apparently. Also every man 
has to take his part with the axe in pre- 
])aring wood for the cooks. The a.xe is 
a weapon (piite strange to some of these 
citv lads. Wlu-n later the Tennesseeans 
had to move their camp they were ob- 
liged to K-ax-e a large (|uantit_\- of wood 
which, with frontier ])rovidence. iliey 
had jiiled up. ( )ur Worcester boys found 
it much easier to carry this to their 
camp in armftds. especially when re- 
turning from drill and the school of the 
soldier, than to cut it fresh from the 
standing timber. Thev exhibited thus 
real New England thrift. 

The 5th of June is Sunday, and the 
first religious servicer in Camp .Alger 
for the Ninth are had. an altar having 
been constructed at the extreme end of 
th<> parade ground. Chajilain Murphy 
officiated and afterwards preached an ex- 
cellent sermon. Soldiers from other reg- 
inirnts and other states were pre-ent. 
The members of the Xinth could not 
have looked better had they been on 
dress parade. Time is telling on the 
adai)tability of the "Emmets."" They are 
learning how to keep house, or rather 
"tent."" If there is a better tent floor 
in camp than Lieutenant McCann's. it 
is not generally known. Sergeant 
Casey's squad has so bedecked its C|uar- 
ters that they are known as the "Ray 
State House."" Corporal McSweeney 
opens a barber shop and Private Traccy 
wields the razor. T. J. .\hearn goes 
water-hunting and comes back with the 
declaration that he has found two 
wells, but subsequent searching fails to 
confirm his find. His friends ])Ut it 
down as the first case on record of a 
man"s seeing double on water. Old-time 
relics are found in the shape of a long- 
b.iried canteen covering a pair of shoes; 



246 



WdkrESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




Corliss, Sweeney, 
Foley, McCartin, - 
J. F. Horan, 

A ki;mini)I-: 



the latter drop to pieces, but the canteen 
goes home as a ]irecious rehc of the Re- 
behion. Miss I'.ertha Kelley, a Wor- 
cester girl employed in the government 
printing office in Washington, with her 
friend, Miss l-'annie lu-ney, called mi 
Captain Abiynihan and left a large 
ba-ket <if fruit, thereby winni ig th:- grat- 
itude of the b(iys, whose stomachs are 
al\\'a\s susce]itible. 

A variation in the life of the "lun- 
mets'" is had on the dth, when in light 
marching order they are taken by C ap- 
tain Moynihan in a cross-country spin 
to inure them to what marching really 
is. Thev ste]j off at a rattling jiace and 
four miles away strike the Warrenton 
tm-npike, where there are mementoes of 
Rebellion days, not the least interesting 
being an old citizen whose tales of long- 
ago are esi)eciall\- relished by the boys, 
cou]iled as they are with recollections of 
Mosln- and his men. Sergeant J. J. Cor- 
liss is detailed to return to \\'orcester 
and there recruit the Company to the 
maxiunmi, viz., u)') men. The next da\ , 
or Tuesday, a repetiti(in of the marching 
ex]KTience of Mondav is had, with the 



ndiville, M. J. Hor:in. 
)1' !■ KAMIXiniAM 

mercury ranging up in the 90's both 
(lavs. The distance covered is estimated 
at twelve miles, with only one stop, a 
pretty severe test of the endurance of 
Worcester lads, but they are e(|ual to it 
,Lud secure the commendation of General 
W. Af. Graham, division coimnander, 
who meets them on their ret m-n. Colonel 
I'.ogan of the Ninth is honored with the 
conmiand of the provisional brigade just 
formed. That the "Emmets" may know 
wh.-it digging for breastworks means, 
ihev get a little experience in this line, 
too. The camp is pleased to see within 
its linnts the Rev. leather Sherman, a 
son of William Tecumseh Sherman of 
Rebellion fame, now the Chaplain of a 
Miss.mri regiment, the 4th. All the 
varietv the boys get in the food line, 
whicli is confined generally to bacon, 
Iiotatoes, hardtack and coffee, is had by 
changing the order of serving these 
items, yet every day is making better 
soldiers of these men used, hitherto, 
onlv to the indifferent exactions of city 
life! .\s they tan or Inirn under the 
southern sky, they are gaining strength 
for coming ordeals. Captain Moyni- 



EMMET (lUAlUJS, COMPANY G. 



247 



liaii is the first representative of liis 
regiment to be ( )t¥icer-(if-the-I )ay in 
Camp Alger, a distinction also held hy 
him in Camp Dewey. 

Wednesday, June 8th, a parly of fif- 
teen, including Sergeant Corliss of G 
Conipan)-, set t)ut for the north for re- 
cruiting purposes. Thirty-twi) men are 
wanted by the "Emmets" to complete 
their numbers. He leaves the camp about 
as happy as usual, which means that 
there are good natured folks there, and 
some who kick at this or that and who 
would find something to complain about 
if they had been located in the garden of 
Eden. For two days fresh meat has 
been serveil. which lpss."ns somewhat 
the horrors of continuous fat bacon, but 
it still takes a mile walk for a drink of 
good water. The distribution on the 
9th of the per capita portion, amounting 
to $3.40 each, of the $250 gift of the 
honoraries, comes to the boys as a God- 
send, and they lose no time in trans- 
ferring a goodly part thereof to the 
keeping of the hucksters, whose goods 
are passed out in exchange, though it 
should be said that the ingredients of 
some of the \'irginia pies are of such 
unhealthful character that, by the Coln- 
nel's order, they are excluded tlicreafter 
from the camp, a severe deprivation for 
New England boys, to whom pie is a 
necessitv, something more than a mere 
luxury. On this day. Mayor Dodge of 
\\'orcester. accomijanied by Policeman 
John Legasey, honors the camp with a 
visit. He conies at an early hour, for it 
is only lietween 7 and 8 a.m. that he ap- 
pears and receives the enthusiastic 
greetings of his Worcester citizens afar 
from home. In the afternoon comes the 
Rev. Rector Thomas Conaty, of the 
National L'niversity, and he receives a 
glad hand from the man\- _\'oung men 
whcim he had known in his Worcester 
davs. They were recalled from drill, 
that they might greet their former 
friend, and they gave the reverend gen- 
tleman three hearty cheers. 

"It never rains, but it pours," an 
adage verified on the loth when State 
Paymaster Henry E. Dobbins of Boston 



visits L'amp .\lger to see about tiie 
monex' due the men for their service in 
Camp Dewey before their muster-in to 
that of the United States. A like ofificer 
from the national government is also ex- 
pected soon. Already appetites are 
whetted in expectation of good things 
coming. "General" Charles H. Taylor 
of the r.oston Globe brings to camp a 
garrison flag which is to float over 
brigade headquarters, and Congressman 
J. !•". Fitzgerald, with his accustomed 
eloquence, presents the same. The heat 
is intense, the mercury ranging trom 
90 to 100 degrees, and the duck suits 
given out at Camp l^ewey are the envy 
of regiments not sd well ecpiipi^ed. 
The i^roximity i)f Washington sug- 
gests tn tlie men ^f Ccmipany G the 
desiral)leness of a trip there, and they 
are promised by their Captain that every 
one shall have the pleasure of a visit to 
the nation's capital, the men to go in 
squads. One day, so many "Emmets" 
are absent from dress parade that 
Lieutenant-colonel Eogan remarks upon 
the fact, and, when told that it is the 
\\'orcester Company, he smilingly says, 
"( Ireat Company that, fourteen men and 
a dog." The at^proach of June i/th 
iironqits the irrenressible soldiers from 
r,nsi(in and vicinity to make prepara- 
tions f(ir a r.imker Hill dnv. Saturday, 
the iith, has a (ilace in memory's cal- 
endar, for then, at 5 p.m.. Paymaster H. 
E. Dobbins began paying tlic Ninth the 
nioney, sixteen dollars each, due them 
for the earlier part of their Camp Dewey 
stav. Worcester does not forget her 
b(i\s and John Casey receives a locket 
fidni his sister Katherine, and Daniel 
( iardner is made happy by a revolver 
from his brother John, with the some- 
what gruesome hope that it may kill its 
share of Spaniards. Captain Moynihan. 
as Officer-of-lhe-day, makes things lively 
for all concerned. 

June 1 2th brings Sunday again and 
mass is celebrated in the shady woods 
from 6 to 9 a.m., the altar having been 
erected by a detail from each Company, 
and nicely decorated with ferns. 
Through practice the choir is improv- 



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iiio-, and sacred music sounding among 
the trees recalls the line from Bryant: 



■■Til. 



Gorr: 



fir.-.t temp 



Chaplain Murphy's talk was a practical 
one on the best use of money, the same 
occasioned by the recent visit of the pay- 
master. So intense is the heat, all ilrill 
is off and the men find needed rest. 
Lieutenant Hurley and Jdhn Murphy, 
however, take a sight-seeing trip in I'.ull 
Run, thirteen miles away, while Ser- 
geant Horan and a s(|uad "f men visit 
the Sixth. When they return they wear, 
in addition to their smiles, a consider- 
able number of medals which they have 
won in contests preliminary to the com- 
ing Bunker Hill celebration, both the 
Sergeant and Private John Larner be- 
ing among the winners. On Monday 
the surgeon started the week with a 
careful visitation of the standi about the 
camp whence are sold soft drinks, in- 
duced thereto by the number of stomach 
cases in the hosjjital, and as a result, 
manv of the enterprises are ordered off 
and a drink diet of milk is urgently rec- 
onnnended. Considering the cheap price 
at which this beverage can be procured 
it would seem well for the men to take 



the physician's advice. Tuesday, Sur- 
geon nevine followed up his work wUh 
a lecture to the "Emmets" on the hy- 
giene of camp life, giving the best of 
practical advice as to food and hab- 
its. .\s a matter of fact the percentage 
(if ■•Ennnets" on the sick list is the 
smallest in the regiment. 

Wednesday, June 15, has its full coni- 
plement of rumors, and "the regiment is 
sure to move" in several directions on 
the same dav. The heat is so intense 
that drill is out of the question, more 
time being spent in the woods than on 
the drill ground. Even dress parade is 
])ostponed till '1.45. Through care in 
this direction prostrations on account of 
heat do not occur. The time seems fa- 
vorable for visits to the capital, and the 
bovs are taking their turns. Miss Eliza- 
beth lirosnan, sister of George W ., 
;i Worcester lady who is to l)e chief of a 
nurse corps, calls on Captain Moynihan 
and leaves a generous gift of provisions 
for the men, while Thomas :\IcDerniott 
and Daniel Murphy, students in Balti- 
more Seminary, also good Worcester 
natives, call on the Company. If possible 
the welcome extended to a note from 
Thomas H. Buckley of Worcester was 



KMMET Gl'AKDS, COMPANY 



219 



warmer still, since it contained a check 
for twenty-five dollars. Tliis staunch 
citizen was awav from home when the 
"Emmets" went through the city and 
this oift is sent as a reminder that he 
docs not forget. He receive> three 
cheers and a tiger almost loud enough 
to he heard over the interval between 
his home and the camp. The amount 
goes into the Company mess fund. 
"Couchee," "G" Company's mascot, has 
a trial by battle with a similar character 
in the Natick compan\- anil, much to 
the regret of his sinin^ors, cimies i«nt 
worsted and is taken tn the huspital fnr 
repairs. Plastered and poulticed he is 
still considered lucky for the Company 
if not for himself. That the Worcester 
men delight in physical prowess is evi- 
dent in that they endure a fifteen min- 
utes' delav of dinner, while the cooks, 
Farrell and llurke. decide which is tiic 
better wrestler. Unfortimately. the rc- 
sidt is a draw. "Patsey" Powers, the 
head(|uarters caretaker, develops som- 
nambulistic tendencies and in his sleep 
walks into another tent carrying his 
blanket and lies down helween the two 
occupants, much to their astonisiunent. 
He also introduces as a rival to 
"Couchee" a brindle puji and puts the 
two dogs on good terms. Tt is claimed 
that from their state pa\ tlic "l-jnnu-t-" 
sent home fuUv $700. 

To Charlestown boys the m'ght be- 
fore the 17th of June is much like the 
eve of July 4th to the rest of the nation. 
The Bunker Hill contingent in the Xinh 
decided to keep up their home habits in 
orthodox manner and they succeecU-d. 
along with the help of the "Emmets" 
and other companies. There were illu- 
minations, and the bugle brigade was 
supplemented by a large number of fish 
horns, which bv some means made their 
appearance in camp. Though the men 
were in the national service and the 
rules were supposed to be very strict, 
there was a most decided letting down 
of all restraint. Men are returning from 
Washington frecpiently. and when Lieu- 
tenant ]\IcCann and party returned they 
brought with them the largest lead nen- 



cil ever sei-n in camp, the same being 
for a recortling instrument in the hands 
of the Captain. When Sergeant Horan 
presents the formida1)le utensil, said to 
be mightier than the sword, he says, 
"Captain, this is fur \(iu tn use in kee])- 
ing tab on the men." To which ])lea>- 
antry the Captain rei)!ies in similar vein, 
"Ell probably use it up in keeping tab 
on the Eirst Sergeant." The men are 
finding soiue work to do in cutting down 
trees and remo\'ing uinK'rbrush, as 
though a change in c;imping ))lace 
niiglit lie under wa\. The T7th of 
June was m.-irked b\ the celebi-ation so 
long contemplated. Congressman I'itz- 
gerald, always active, was the soul of the 
whole affair, arranging for the prizes 
and giving the project an imi)i-tus froiT 
the start. The first act in the drama 
was a game of baseball on the Sixtii's 
grounds between the rival nines of this 
regiment and of the .Si.xth. Tt ended at 
seven innings with a score of 5 to 4 in 
favor of the Sixth, though if the other 
two innings had been played the bins 
of the Xinth were confident of winning. 
Eogarty and Gilmore of "C" C'mnnany 
l^layed second base and right field, re- 
spcctiveh'. George \\'. r>rosnan of the 
"Emmets" scored for the Xinth, and 
T^ieutenant Hubert Jackson,* a Wor- 
cester boy. did the same for the .Sixtli. 
The game was stopped on account of 
the presence of the Ignited States |)ay- 
master in the camp of the victors, and 
his attractions no one could resist. The 
afternoon contests were on the grounds 
of the Xinth and resulted in favor of the 
hiime contestants, the chief honors go- 
ing to James McCrath, Michael Elymi, 
William Murphy and Daniel W. O'Con- 
nor. To give a home-like look to the 
Com]«ny street, the boys have put up 
a bird house in front of the Captain's 



*Willi,uii Hubert J.ickson was gradiiatcil 
'roni the Classical High School in 18S9: 
r.ostoii University. iSqj; later from the 
n. U. Law Schook Was First Lieutenant, 
('ompany L (the colored company) of the 
Sixth; commanded his company in Porto 
Rico; afterwards had a commission in the 
Philippines, and is now practicing law. in 
Pittsburg, Penn. He got his military start 
I'roni Lieutenant ^IcCann. 



250 



WOKCESTKK 1 X THE STANISII WAR. 




J. Sullivan. .M.\juk .Maguh.n. 

c.\Mi' .\i.(;ek. 

tent just fur a pair of martins, and each 
man is a Cdnnnittee to see that nci liarni 
comes to tlie feathereil housekeepers, 
f )\vino- to a ,q-enerous ojft of S500 b\- 
Boston's superintenilent of streets, B. 
W. Wells, the 1)o\s ha.l cin'ckcn for 
supper, and Mayor Quincy's check for 
$i:;o paid for evening- fireworks. 

Saturday. June T8th, is tilled with 
rumor-; of dei>arture, and the fact that 
(iener.al II. Ai. 1 )uffield, bri-a.Ie com- 
mander, with his staf? inspects the rciji- 
ment Ljoes far to substantiate the be- 
lief that the stay in Camp .M^er will not 
be Ioul;-. Private Fitzg;erald, \\ho has 
been in \\'or:'ester. rettuais to cam]) 
laden down with apjireciative S'ifts from 
home fi'iends. Tile Ladies' .\u.\iliary of 
the "l-"mmets" sends sponq-es. lead pen- 
cils and shoe laces, all bein<;- badl\- 
needed, and man\- of the men are re- 
membered personally. Sunda\ witnessed 
a decided innovation in that the hmc;- 
conteni]:)'ated trin to the Potomac was 
becrun. The Xinth is a reijiment in the 
1st I'.rii^ade. ,^1 I )i\ ision, _'d .\rni\ (."orps, 
and its associates are the 33d and 
the 34th Michigan, b'.videiitly those 
in authority wished to see just what 
the men c(nild do under "hurr\- u]) ' 
orders, since not even the eifficers of the 



regiment knew its clestination. At 9 
a.m. came the conuiiand from brigade 
headquarters for the men to Ije ready 
in an hour for a trip, no one knew 
where, but shelter tents were given out 
and two days' rations were consigned to 
each man's haversack. His tent and 
blankets were rolled into a "horse col- 
lar" anil before the assigned time the 
reginu'iit was ready. It soon became 
known that the Potomac was the ob- 
jective point, but what the distance was 
few, if any, knew. The march to Dunn- 
Loring was dusty, as all midsummer 
trips in N'irginia are. and soon the way 
stretches off to the eastward. The two 
^lichigan regiments are pushing along 
also. Nearly five hours were occupied 
in the march and many a plan was made 
as to what would be done when "( )ld 
Potomac's Shore" was reached. The 
river is historic, and those who had read 
tlu-ir books to aii\ purpose conjured up 
manv a vision as the\- caught the first 
glini])se of its waters. Shelter tents are 
pitched on the banks of the stream and 
every man promises himself a dip in 
its cooling waters ere "tajis" arc 
soimded. 

( )iilv the unexjiected ha])pens, for 
hardly had the "luiimets" got their tents 
up ill good sliane and were making prep- 
arations f. >r the evening's fun when 
there came an order Un- the 2d Bat- 
talion, to v.'liicli the Worcester Com- 
panv belniigs, to break camp and to 
march two miles away for outpost duty. 
Having traveled fifteen miles already, 
this is not exactly inspiriting, but it is 
a soldier's part to obev orders, however 
disagreeable, so the tents come down 
and. with vivid jiictures of the good 
times the other fellows are having, the 
"Emmets" and their fellows push out to 
their respective stations, just as their 
fathers were doing in this very section 
nearlv forty years before. There is no 
]iitcliing of tents and the boys rest un- 
der the blue canopy, though some of the 
active lads, when ofif duty, improved the 
opportunity to scour the neighborhood, 
thus making some interesting acquaint- 
ances. If in these rambles they sampled 



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251 



other food than that carried in their 
haversacks and if, occasional! \. tlu\ had 
a drink of somethins:; stronger tlian 
aqua pura, the blame must In- laid nn 
those who sent them away from the 
river's banks. Notwithstandini;- the 
untimely ending of plans for a swim in 
the classic stream, the bovs were dream- 
ing of carrying them out the tiext da\'. 
when lo. at 4 a.m.. the\- were rmised to 
make ready for their return tn Camp 
.\lger. and at 8 o'clock they were headed 
west for their former station. The way 
was dusty as usual, 

".And tlu' lini.'Kl sun .-ilinve Uui.ulied .-i piti- 
less laugli," 

trying the mettle of every man in the 
brigade. It was clearlv a trial of en- 
durance and the eastern soldiers came 
through with shining colors. .\t the 
end of the trip, there were only four men 
of the Ninth in the ambulance, while 
more than five times that niuuher irom 
the western regiments had wilted. In 
the retrospect the men viewed the ex- 
perience as a valuable one, still they had 
no desire to repeat it at once. 

Tuesday, the 21st, came ]Major F. IT. 
Hammond, originally a Clinton man. 
with pay due for one month's service 
to the United States. Three days' pay 
was kept back, so that each private re- 
ceived only $14.04 for his labor during 
twenty-seven days. Xo man would ever 
enter his country's service with money- 
getting as his principal object. Chap- 
lain Murphv receives an immense num- 
ber, said to be 30.000, of patriotic songs, 
the gift of Brookline Knights of Colum- 
bus, which he is to distribute among the 
men. and Peter T-". SiulHvan of the 
"Kmmets" is the man to pass them 
around. There should be no lack of 
singing in the immediate future. Per- 
haps the bugler did his distribution act 
on the 22(1, otherwise there is nothing to 
record for the day. 

The evening of the 23d was made 
memorable and interesting by a visit 
from the /th Illinois, the regiment that 
had extended such cordial greetings 
when the Ninth arrived. Now si.x hun- 
dred Chicago lads come over and help 



make the welkin ring, for somehow the 
impression is gaining ground that the 
]iarting must be near. l"or many a 
\iiimg soldier the "Cead mille tailt'he" 
of that joyous evening was his last, since, 
ere the next month is ended, many 
scores of them will be sleejiing 'neatli 
the soil of Cuba or tlie waters of the sea. 
Happily no vision of impending gloom 
overshadows the pleasures of the niglit. 

Friday, June 24lh, re]nited to be an 
unlucky da\-. but to the X'intli Regiment 
it means another move, this tinu- nearer 
the foe. .After breakfast, each man re- 
ceives an abdominal band, sent down by 
the Massachusetts Soldiers' .Aid Society, 
also from the government a package 
containing a mmd^ier of items for use in 
case of wounds. There are antise]itic 
compresses, bandages and safety ])ins, 
with ])rinted directions as to their ai)p!i- 
catioii. All the things sent to the camp 
in the wav of ])resents that cannot be 
easily carried along have been returned 
to tlie homes of the boys, and heavy 
wearing apparel, including knapsacks, 
have been sent back to Alassachusetts. 
Only a light outfit is to be taken to 
tropical Cuba. Though much was sent 
home, more was left and neighboring 
colored families fell heirs to a vast C|uan- 
titv of camp accumulations, including 
in one case no less tiian twenty-three 
dogs. This particular family had long 
wanted a dog, and the canine posses- 
sions of the camp were able to supply 
the demand. 

The regiment is to leave only one man 
in the hospital, a case of heat prostra- 
tion. It is 3 o'clock p.m. when the Ninth 
Alassachusetts A'olunteers turn their 
backs upon Cami) .Alger and start for 
Dunn-Loring. The clouds of dust rise 
like smoke, and were there the roll of 
thunder one niiglit think a battle in 
l)rogress, but, notwithstanding the dis- 
comfort, not a man falls out of the ranks 
and without a halt the station is reached 
in an hour. Tn camj) are left the large 
tents hitherto in use, now to be de- 
voted to covering the recruits who are 
soon to come down from the North. To 
look after the new arrivals, a non-com- 



252 



WURCKSTKK I\ llir-: SPANISH WAR, 



missioned nfticL-r i> detailed from each 
company and the representative from 
"(i" is Corporal McSweeney. As Cap- 
tain Moynihan was the first, so lie is the 
last Officer-of-the-day in Cani]) Alger. 
The luggage which each man is su])- 
posed to carry, for his present and fu- 
ture comfort, consists of a half shelter 
tent, a rubber blanket, a wdolen ditto, 
blue fatigue blouse and tnuisers and one 
change of underwear, all rnUed to- 
gether and. when lied at the enils. sus- 
pended like a collar from the left shoul- 
der under the right arm. C)i this array, 
soldiers in the Ixeliellion wmild discard 
all but the tent and rubber blanket. 



■'I'atsey" Powers and his dog "Alger" 
were left in the camp, both boy and dog 
mcjst melancholy objects, the l)oy in 
tears and "Alger" manifestly in sympa- 
thy. Clad in his semi-regimentals "I'at- 
sey" forms a vivid picture in this day's 
record. "Couchee," however, came 
along, and right here is a good place to 
briefly sketch the career of the "Em- 
mets' "' favorite. 

"Col'C IlEE." 

He is a bull terrier of thoroughbred 
stuck, and as a pup in 1891 was the prop- 
erty of Michael McCarthy of Worcester. 




Tlmugh the men are on tnne, the 
trains are not and scime time is con- 
smneil in waiting. There are two sec- 
tiiins of the train and the "l''mmets" rick- 
in \'o. 2. It is late in the evening 
wiien the train starts, and Alexandria is 
reached in something less than an hour. 
Not much time was given to sleep on 
this trip, which, from -Mexandria. was 
about four hours long, since all the fun 
that lively youths could crowd into the 
time was had. ( )n the wa\ down to the 
city that never failing friend. Congress- 
man Fitzgerald, had put aboard the train 
a quantity of eatables and drinkables 
which he knew would be appreciated be- 
fore there was a chance to get more. 
He has made himself solid with the men 
of the Ninth for all their natural live^. 



When the Comiiany decided that a mas- 
cot was necessary the eyes of Sergeant 
Horan fell on the lively form of McCar- 
thy's dog. and the owner gallantly 
proffered the services of his canine to 
the State. They were accepted, and from 
that time onward the animal has been 
conspicuous on all military occasions. 
He always went to camj) at Framing- 
ham and was an invariable feature on 
parade, his first appearance being in 
i8q2. Though each member of the Com- 
]>any constituted himself a part own- 
er of "Couchee," his name and fame 
spread throughout the entire regiment 
and brigade. So well did he know his 
place that no restraint was put upon 
liim in camp and he had free run of the 
field. Once, however, he came to grief 



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253 



and that was when, in sport, a inenil)cr 
of the 8th Regiment clapped the visitor 
into a mess-chest and then forgot him 
for a number of hours, or until the poor 
dog was almost suffocated. On taking 
him out of his l>ox he was limp and np- 
parently lifeless, but he responded to 
efforts to resuscitate and, when his wits 
came back, he hustled over to his Com- 
pany street in a lively manner, hence- 
forth to remairr nearer home, at all 
events giving the 8th Regiment a 
wide berth. In 1897, when Massachu- 
setts sent her soldiery to New York to 
bear a part in the dedication of (General 
Grant's tomb, the "Emmets" carried 
"Couchee" and. under the care of J. J. 
Corliss, he made the march up Broad- 
way, enlisting the attention of the popu- 
lace and also that of many animals of 
his own kind, with which he was not un- 
willing to fight on very slight provoca- 
tion. Indeed, so numerous were his 
scraps that his ne.xt friend had to at- 
tach a chain to his collar, thus restrain- 
ing his martial spirit. He could nni 
realize that time had undone some of 
his fighting i|ualities, and though his 
native fire was uui|uenchi.'cl. his teeth, his 
only weapons, were too badly broken 
for efficient use on the battlefield, hence 
the necessity of oversight on the part 
of the "Emmets," who loved him dearly, 
and were determined that wherever they 
went there should go "Couchee" also, 
hence his presence as the Ninth leaves 
Camp Alger. His experience with the 
Company in Xew ^'ork extended his 
fame l^eyond P.ay State limit-, so that 
when the Xintli marclied into C.inip 
.Mgcr the Illinois Sewnth recognized 
the dog before they ilid the men. 

The morning nf the _>5tli brings the 
second sectiim of the regiment to New- 
port News and a union with the first, 
which was already there. This place, 
dating from the days of Captain John 
Smith, is one of Virginia's tip ends and 
is immediately opposite Fortress Mon- 
roe. In Rebellion da\s Ceneral Butler 
gave considerable attention to its forti- 
fication. Now it is an imjiortant rail- 



road termimis. .\n enthusiastic recep- 
tion awaited them from the citizens, 
who ai)parently were all out to see and 
applaud. There was a splendid lunch 
in readiness, and a regular army officer, 
in due time, escorted the men to a mag- 
nificent lawn which fronted Hampton 
Roads, where hot coffee was served by 
the government. The first installment of 
the regiment got in ahead, but ere long 
Captain Moynihan led his boys into 
touch witli the good things provided. 
The waters bef.jre the place of feasting, 
nearly forty years before, Iiad borne the 
rebel ram Merrimac uiien she de- 
stroyed that portion of the national 
fleet stationed there, and there, too, had 
come the little .Monitor, not alone to 
punish the Merrimac, but to revolution- 
ize all naval architecture. The bovs, 
however, are not so nuu-li inieni on the 
past as they are as to when ihev are 
to get off to sea. .At y a.m. comes an 
orderly from the Captain of the Harvard 
telling Colonel Bogan to have his men 
ready at 1.30 to embark. Leave was 
then given for the boys to take a bath in 
the inviting waters, a permission that it 
did not take tliem long to profit by, and 
siHMi tin- briny Jiad in its embrace fullv 
one thciusand .Massachusetts bovs, en- 
joying to the utmost its cooling, invig- 
orating touch. One or two favored 
"Emmets" had the honor of bathing in 
the house of a Lee, a relative of the 
famous Confederate. There were visible 
many reminders of \'irginia's favorite 
stin. and the Old Dominion was the soul 
nf liMspiiality to the Bay State, accept- 
ing by \\a\ of compensation, for favors 
rendered, only Massachusetts buttons. 
The "assembly." sounded at 11 o'clock, 
recalled the men to their uiiiforms and 
places, and a half hour later they were 
taking their lunches from their haver- 
sacks <in the Casino grounds, where 
their guns were stacked on arrival. 

They Exter "ILxkwvkd." 

Not many of these young soldiers in 
their school days had entertained any 
notion of becoming students in .Amer- 
ica's "Idest college, yet at 12.30 everv 



254 



W'okCKSlKK IN TIIK STANMSII WAR. 




1, Tst Lieut. \Vm. J. Casey. 
Henry Dobbins, Paymaster 
(apt. .Tuhn J. .Sullivan. 

n-FUKR.S. NINTH M.\s: 



Wni, II. Devine. Div. 

C"l. !•". n. ISogan. 

I.ieiit.-lol. L. ]. I.oj 



ON P.\RAUI-:— f.\MI' AI.CICK 



iiieniljer nf the Xinth fdiiiid himself iUil\- 
entered in an institntimi dl' that name, 
in other words he was aboard the Har- 
vard, the new name of that g;reat ocean 
hner, the New York, wliich is now in 
the hands of the n;overnment for the pur- 
pose of transporting sohh'ers to the seat 
of war. The men are taken from the 
doek to the threat vessel l)v the ferry- 
1)1 lat Louise of the Chesapeake & Oliin 
Railroad. Every new move in this de- 
ligfhtfnl day is accompanied by joke, 
laufjhter and sonjj, and well it is that we 
lauph while we may, "for another dav 
will bring enour;;h sorrow," .\11 this is 
happening- on Satnrday and there is still 
much to do in loading the great vessel 
with supplies, both for the men and for 
her own great boilers and engines. 
There is ample time to stndy and ex- 
amine the appointments of tlie craft. 
She is receiving a half dozen six-inch 
guns to replace as many smaller ones. 



In addition to the Xinth, she is carry- 
ing two battalions of the 34th Michigan. 
The decks are scenes of mirth, not much 
like a war party, and to the strains of 
the "Red, White and Blue." in which 
these voices join, some jiatriotic fellows 
add, "and the (ireen." But even this 
commingling of colors cannot go on in- 
definitely, and the early hour of 8.30 p.m. 
beholds the soldiers safe in the arms of 
Morpheus, dreaming of Spaniards, glory 
and home. 

( )ne more Sunday is begun, June 
2rith, in the Old Dominion, and the early 
bugle call meets a (|uick response from 
the men who have rested well in their 
new (piarters. .\ large force of men has 
worked all night to coal the Harvard, 
and even then their task is not com- 
]>lete. Notwithstanding the changed sit- 
uation, mass is celebrated in the ship's 
bow, where an altar had been provided, 
permission having been secured from 



EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 



255 



the captain of the Harvard. .Mucli in 
Chaplain Murphy's surprise he was ac- 
costed by the second officer of the ves- 
sel, before his services began, with the 
statement that he could not have his 
exercises there, but a little decided talk 
on the Chaplain's jiart. with a direction 
to Sergeant Hnran of the "Emmets" tn 
detad a s(|uad of men for guard duty, 
cleared the air and the devotinn-- ]'rn- 
gressed. At 2. 3011. m. anclmr is weighed 
and the Harvard, laden with men, 
amiiuuiition and sul)sistence, is off for 
Cuba. She departs accompanied by the 
good wishes of the thousands wlm see 
her turn her prow to the sea. Eveiy 
wltistle where steam was up let go a 
ntightv sound in testimony of apprecia- 
tion and, coiivoxing the repair ship \ nl- 
can, the Harvard with her representa- 
tives of Massachusetts and Michigan is 
ofif for Santiago. 

This is before the days of Alarconi 
wireless telegrajjhy, so for several days 
the vessel and her occupants are a world 
to themselves, except as the Harvard 
may be sighted by some passing craft. 
The letters, so regularly sent to the i)a- 
pers of Worcester and Boston, are want- 
ing and "The Xinth" as a glaring head- 
line disa])pears for a season. Still there 
is something- doing every day on board 
the ship, and though, as a rule. not good 
sailors the men gradually develop sea 
legs, at least sufficiently to appreciate 
the historic trip they are taking. Appar- 
cntlv the fare on shipboard is better than 
that provided when the Second sailed 
from Tampa, or the kickers would have 
been heard from. There are 1,400 luiles 
of sea journev before the men. and there 
is much time to be killed ere they can 
begin the Spanish destruction on which 
they are supposed to be bent. So calm 
is the sea and so devoid of incident the 
trip, the careful aimalist had hard work 
to write u]) his "line a day." Monday 
night the Harvard sighted a craft on her 
starboard and as she had no light burn- 
ing she was overhauled, arousing sen- 
sations of interest among the landsmen 
looking on. However, as her papers 
proved to be in order the boys had to 



resign themselves to sleep without suf- 
licieiit excitement to inlluence their 
dreams. Tuesday. 28th, the repair ship 
\'ulcan signalized the day by getting 
lost. In mythology X'ulcan was a lame 
god and his namesake verified the pro- 
])riet\- of its appellatinn by moving in a 
liahing ni.inner. s(i nuich so that she 
sensil>l\ iinpi'deil tin' progress of the 
Harvard. It took fully tw 1 hours for 
the l.-irger \e-sel tn o\ erhaiil the miss- 
ing tli>ating toolshop.a consuiuption of 
time that under some circumstances 
might prove highl\' disastrous. Thou,gh 
not far from land at any time, it is not 
till Wednesday that ijoints of interest arc 
pointed out, I'. J. Sullivan of the "Em- 
mets" was a sailor of experience, having 
been on the Chicago, once the flag-ship 
of the white squadron, and has repeated- 
ly passed through these waters. His 
knowledge is in place and he has inter- 
ested listeners as he points out lr)calitics 
famed in early American history. Soiue 
of the Pjahama group are noted and he 
shows liis credulous comrades San Sal- 
vador, first sighted by the great Cicnoese 
in 141)2: but the bovs draw tlie line of 
belief whi-n he tries to tell tlu-m just 
where Cohinibus landi-d. ( )n Thurs- 
day come-- the last da\- of June, and in 
the aftertioon at alioiit 3 p.m. while still 
on the north side of Cuba, on the port 
side a vessel is sighted whose strange 
behavior excites some wonder on the 
Harvard. .She does not res])oiid to the 
latter's signals and through a glass has 
the appearance of a torpedo boat. The 
guns of the vessel were trained on the 
stranger and twenty-pound projectiles 
were ])laced within the cannon ready for 
use. The interrogated craft turns abcnit 
and heading for the Harvard, immedi- 
ately the word goes out that a Spanish 
destrover is coming. The Ninth is or- 
dered to "fall in" and things l)egin to be 
really exciting, but once more a "flash- 
in-the-pan" is recorded, since it is only 
a collier, the Alexandria, on her way to 
Norfolk, which had failed to answer the 
signals of the Harvard through having 
forgotten the code. Just a little before 
midnight the vessel reaches a i)oint off 



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Santiago harbor and lier journey is 
done. 

l'"riday is July 1st and a great day for 
Cuba. During the preceding night 
search-lights have played upon the new- 
ly arrived and they have been duly an- 
swered. The Newark was the first ves- 
sel spoken, and from her a knowledge of 
the Santiago situation was obtained. So 
well lighted is the entrance to the har- 
bor, where Cervera and his fleet are 
"bottled up," that the men on board the 
Harvard have a good view of the Morro 
and the sunken Merrimac. about which 
every one had read so much. A close 
watch is kept upon the harbor entrance 
and if the Spanish rat does undertake 
an exit he will find his hole well guard- 
ed. A speedy landing is expected and 
desired. Ball cartridges are distriliuted 
to the men and their guns are thorough- 



ly inspected, with the idea of inmiediate 
action on getting ashore. The execu- 
tive ofticer of the New York, which is 
Admiral Sampson's flag-ship, through 
his megaphone, directs the Harvard to 
keep well a-starboard, to land the troops 
first and to keep out of range of the 
Morro's batteries, to all of which the 
Harvard's officer responds, "Aye, aye, 
sir." The soldiers enthusiastically cheer 
everything in sight and are ready for any 
emergency, every one having endured 
the voyage well and the sick list is nil. 
Siboney is the place of debarking and 
at 5..^o all are ofT, the Harvard discharg- 
ing lier burden about half a mile from 
shore by means of her smaller boats. 
There are many vessels in the vicinity, 
among them the hospital ship State of 
Texas, flying the Red Cross flag, and 
the bi)\s keep anxious eves out for a 




rof the .Ninth's Pi 



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257 






sight of the Worcester nurse said to be 
aboard of her, but their watch fubicss is 
not rewarded. It is a busy, noisy wnrld 
into whicli the men are ushered, f' m- 
there is tiie sound of bombardment and 
the whistles of steamers of all sorts, 
joined to the nearer confusion of land- 
ing. The twenty or more huts consti- 
tuting the settlement of Siboney are not 
very impressive, l)ut the pressure of 
feet upon a foreign shore gives every 
man a sensation never experienced be- 
fore. Immediately they note the lux- 
uriance of vegetation and the cpiantity 
of inviting fruit, against whose use. 
however, they have been warned by the 
surgeons. 

Four hours after landing, while many 
were enjoying bathing in the surf, the 
Ninth was ordered forward, and it took 
substantially the same trail followed by 
the Rough Riders and others in the af- 
fair at Las Guasimas. The "front." 
always a movable locality, was said to 
be twelve miles away and over a route 
trodden by the W'orcester boys of the 
Second several days before; the Xinth 
having laid off all surplus burdens takes 
its first march in Cuba. All this day 
on the extreme American right has been 
raging the fight at El Caney, but the 
news comes slowly here. At the left, 
towards which the Ninth is marching, 
the Rough Riders and others are giving 
a name to El Poso in connection with 
the famed fight of San Juan. All along 
the route wounded men are met making 
their way back to the hospital accom- 
modations of the coast. It is hardly fair 
to call the paths followed in Cuba roads. 



Even the Western idea of a trail is much 
better than the tracks pursued in Cuban 
marches. The mud is deep, hills steep 
and the vegetation rank. There are 
halts to permit the passage of mule 
trains laden with ammunition and ])ro- 
visions for those already in the fray, and 
there is waiting while regiments of regu- 
lars change their positions. .At the same 
time the new men are greeted heartily 
by ihdse ahead of them in experience, 
whii cheer the new ccmiers. Some- 
where in this effort to reach the scene 
of conflict the ist of July gave place to 
the 2d, but there was no ]ierceptible 
change in what was required of the men. 
Piefore the regiment moved it was given 
out that Colonel Bogan had been sent 
to the hospital, a victim of fever, though 
he was a sick man when he left Massa- 
chusetts. As they made their way for- 
ward, news gradually filtered into the 
lines that the Second had met the enemy 
at El Caney. and the praises of the Mas- 
sachusetts boys were sung by the regu- 
lars, though the black, smoky powder 
used bv them had compelled their early 
withdrawal from the fight, a condition 
that seems to be not altogether reas- 
suring to the Ninth, who^e guns and am- 
munition were of the same archaic char- 
acter. They were glad, however, to 
know that their Worcester friends had 
given a good account of themselves. 
\\'hile not wounded in the din of battle, 
blood is drawn when Sergeant M. J. 
McCartin, in cleaning his gun, explodes 
a shell and thereby loses the first finger 
of his right hand, while John E. Casey, 
the Company wagoner, being hit in the 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



ear by a spent ball, is the only "Emmet" 
to sense Spanish lead. When near the 
place where the Rough Riders received 
their punishment, the whiz of Mauser 
bullets drew from our men a return vol- 
ley. Whatever the result as to life or 
death, it had the effect of ending- the 
Spanish music. It is 5 a.m. when the 
men are roused fnim a hvivi rest liy all 
the din and ci.infiisioii of battle. It is 
a pretty rough introduction to young 
men who hitherto have only read of 
what war is like. 

At 7 o'clock a.m. the Ninth start < 
again, and in the afternoon reaches a 
point where the Springfield rifle and 
sniokv powder develop the fact that the 
regiment is better in reserve than in ac- 
tion. It is n<j part of this story to crit- 
icise the authorities which sent the 
Massachusetts men forward with such 
inadequate e(|uipment, l)Ut it docs seem 
strange that a nation so advanced as 
the American should be so far behind 
the Spaniards in the essential feature of 
firearms. 

Just before reaching San Juan Hill 
the road forked, and the .Vinth l)ore to 
the left. In doing so, skirted the base 
of the hill anil halted, .\ftcr a dinner 
of hardtack and water the regiment, late 
in the afternoon, was ranged on the e-\- 
treme left of the line, so placeil as to 




Spanish Trench, .San Ji'an Hi 



really face the sea, but in position to 
prevent a flank movement, which was 
considered probable. On the right was 
the 20th Regulars, ready to deliver a 
cross fire should the enemy advance. 
The "Emmets" found themselves in a 
natural ravine or gully. The men, weary 
from their long march, went to sleep 
quickly. At 9.30 the Spaniards began 
firing and several volleys were given in 
reply, there being no trouble about 
black powder in the night. The firing 
episode was fast and furious for a time. 
To the inexperienced ears of some of 
the "Emmets" the noise seemed unnec- 
essarily loud. All sorts of remarks were 
current and the laugh was loud over the 
vocalized reflections of Private F., who 
remarked that if "them Spaniards didn't 
look out they would hit somebody yet," 
and "If God has any respect for the Irish 
I hope He's praying for us now." An- 
other lad, referring to his lady love, in 
anxious voice says, "I wonder what my 
clay pigeon is doing now?" Again the 
men sleep, but before this there had 
come a conmiand for two companies to 
report to Colonel E. P. Pearson, com- 
mander of the brigade. Our Worces- 
ter men, "G," and the Clinton company, 
"K," were designated, but it was not 
so easy to locate the Colonel's posi- 
tion, hence Private Steele of the "Em- 
mets" and Smith of the Clintons were 
sent out to find the way. On reporting to 
the commander he ordered them to re- 
main where they were for the ])resent, 
since the firing was then on along the 
entire line. When the messengers re- 
turned at 1.30 a.m. of the 3d, they found 
the men asleep, but they were speed- 
il\- roused, and at 2 o'clock, having 
filled their canteens from the yellow 
waters of the San Juan River, under the 
guidance of Steele and Smith, pushing 
.-md dragging tliemsclves through 
swamps and under1)rush, the compa- 
nies reported to Lieutenant-colonel E. 
R. Kellogg of the loth U. S. Infantry 
at 3.15 in the morning. He said that 
his men were exhausted and ought to be 
relieved, but the fact of black powder 
prevented his sending the men of the 



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259 




Xinth to their immediate relief. Hdw- 
ever, the}' could dig traverse trenches to 
the firing Hue, wliere tlie men of 
the loth were on duty. Tliis was 
done imder the direction of Lieu- 
tenant Eli Helmic, of the regulars, 
he warning the men to work lively, 
since the enemy would fire at dayhreak. 
The distance to the Spanish lines is 165 
yards and the position is an exposed 
one. subject to a cross fire hv the enemw 
a long, low hill on which Captain John 
Drum of the loth Infantry was killed. 
The Spaniards do open fire at daybreak, 
as expected, and digging ceases, but the 
men of the Xinth take their positions 
under a heavy fire, retaining them till 
the flag of truce went up on the 3d. Fur 
their coolness under fire they were com- 
plimented by Lieutenant-colonel Kel- 
logg, and the men of the loth were 
very generous in sharing their rations, 
since the relieving comrades had been 
almost rationless and sleepless since the 
1st. When Lieutenant Helmic learned 
of the condition in this respect, he and 
Lieutenant Hurley of the "Emmets" 
went for rations and secured cofTee, 
sugar and hardtack for the hungry men. 
After sxmdown of the 4th, with the flat- 
tering remark by Lieutenant-colonel 
Kellogg that they were a credit to 
Massachusetts, the detached comjianics 
returned to the regiment. 

The "Emmets" are now a part of the 
3d Brigade, 3d Division, of the sth 



Army Corps. Colonel E. P. Pear- 
son conuuaiuls the brigade. General J. 
F. Kent the division. The men are 
not slow to note the advantage of the 
Krag-jorgen.sen rifle, and no weai)on 
of that kind left around loose is long 
without a finder. Rain storms, such as 
Americans never saw at home, are a daily 
occurrence, and when they come the 
men are learning that they mav be taken 
as one of nature's shower baths. The 
boys of the Xinth were astonished on 
this day when, for the first time, they 
saw a whole regiment of regulars strip 
of¥ their clothing and take a most invig- 
orating bath /;/ statu )iatiira\ with all 
out-of-doors as a bath house : then giv- 
ing their clothing a scrub they resumed 
it and it was (|uickly dried by the return- 
ing sun. Others could and did catch 
in their rubber blankets rain water, with 
which they filled their canteens. 

On the 4th. Musician P. F. Sullivan 
goes on a visit to the 2d Massachusetts, 
and hardly recognizes his old friends 
there, since they, during the interval fol- 
lowing Camp Dewey, have practically 
given up using the razor, and through a 
full beard he has to look closely to find 
his Worcester acrpiaintances. There lie 
first heard of the death of Lieutenant E. 
X'. Renchley of Worcester, and later he 
visited the 6th Regulars and conversed 
with fellow officers and men who had 
known Benchley so well. At this very 
time Worcester was hoping against 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 




I'. I'. IJOVLE. p. .1. SCULI 

T. n. Kelley. p. J. Sullivan (in hi^ 

hope that subsequpiit repnrts woulrl ren- 
der back the yount;- man whuse futnre 
had promised so much. Also he found 
the 1 2th Regulars and a large repre- 
sentation of Worcester friends who had 
enlisted under Lieutenant Anglum. 

While "G" Company was away fnmi 
the regiment, the same had a visit from 
Lieutenant Crowley of the 20th United 
States, a West Point classmate of Bench- 
ley, who expressed great regret at no; 
se'eing Benchley's fellow Worcester 
men. He was entertained by Captain 
Dunn of Company L Later Captain 
Moynihan, with Lieutenants Hurley 
and' .McCann, went over to the 20th 
and were told in detail the sad story of 
the young hero's death. 

Late in the evening of the 4th, certain 
Company "G" men were mixed up in an 
affair on the Harvard, which, for several 



,ilor days 



M. J. McC^ 



days, had l>cen the habitation of the 
regiment. When the disembarking 
came, five men from each company were 
left to assist in unloading the vessel, and 
in its general care ; this to relieve the ma- 
rines, who were hardly equal to thetask. 
The "Emmets" thus left behind were 
Sergeant P. J. Moynihan, Corporal J. F. 
Koran. Privates J. J. Creaven, Edward 
.Sullivan and P. J. Prendiville. For 
safe keeping, a large number of prison- 
ers, captured by the fleet on the 3d, had 
been ]:)laced aboard the vessel. During 
the night these men, either to relieve 
their crowded condition or to seize the 
arms of the guard, which were stacked 
upon the deck, roused the apprehension 
of those on duty. The sergeant of the 
guard was Moynihan of the "Emmets," 
and, on the failure of the Spaniards to 
heed the commands of the guard (most 



EMMET CUARDS, COMPANY G. 



2(il 




likely none of them understood), they 
were fired upcm and a large number 
dropped in their places: six dead out- 
right and the others badly wounded. 
Their blood flowed freely upon the dec'.; 
and their comprehension of orders, eve i 
though given in an unknown tongue, 
seemed to grow amazingly. 

During the next three days there is 
no firing and the men have a chance to 
compare Cuban climate with that of 
their homes, and few of them would 
care to make the Island, wonderfully 
fertile though it be, their pennaneni 
abode. The health of the men continues 
good and the rations tolerable, though 
some begin to find fat bacon rather too 
constant in its daily appearance. On 
the 8thj Musician Sullivan sends to the 
Worcester Gazette a letter, in which he 
ingeniously depicts the assault on San 
Juan Hill b\- picturing Worcester's 
Xewton Hill as the scene, capping it 




with a blockhouse, stationing two thou- 
sand Si)aniards, determined to hold it, 
and clothing the hillside with trees, 
whose tops conceal sharpshooters, and 
dense undergrowth, threaded with in- 
terminable lines of barbed wire, u]) 
against all of which the .\nuTican^. on 
the 1st day of July, were hurled. That 
they should gain the top wa^ tlie won- 
der of every one. 

It was in this period that a Spanish 
sharpshooter, found in a tree, where he 
had been for several days, not daring to 
come down, was brought in so nearly 
famished that when carried before 
Lieutenant-colonel Logan, he actually 
snatched from the latter's hand a 
cracker which he was eating. When 
the guard would punish the ca')tive for 
his inci\ility, the good-natured officer 
said, ".\'o. no! If he is as hungry as 
that, let him go." Though General 
Rates had declared that Spaniards thus 
found should not be brought before 
him, in this case the man was sent to 
the rear as a prisoner. It was held that 
shar])shooters in trees within the 
.\merican lines were not within 
the pale of civilized warfare. With tliis 
idea in mind, men of the 24tli and 25th 
U. S. regiments went gunning for them, 
calling the diversion "coon hunting." 

At this time the Ninth is on tlie ex- 
treme left of the line encircling Santi- 
ago. The other regiments near are tlie 
3d, 20th, 2d and loth Regulars, who are 
entrenched within 500 yards of the city 
itself. The novices in the art of war 
are not slow to improve their opportu- 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 




nity to learn from the old soldiers, 
whose experience cuvei's many years of 
Indian fighting. There is little in the 
range of American military life that 
they have not sampled, and they are the 
kindest of teachers to these beginners. 
Tobacco is becoming a scarce article, 
and devotees of the weed are put to 
their wits' ends to secure their favorite 
stimulant, offering fabulous sums for 



small quantities of it. One man is said 
to have paid above $25 for a single 
pound of smoking tobacco, and an offi- 
cer, on the 2(1. was reported offering his 
gold watch for just one chew. \\'riting 
material, too, is entirely out, and tomato 
can labels are at a premium, for on them 
the boys can write their letters, and. 
when tied with a string, in lieu of en- 
velope, they are sent homeward. 



EMMET GUARDS, COMPANY G. 



2«3 



The week's cessation of firing is im- 
proved to make stronger the ])ositions 
of the American forces, and tlie "lini- 
mcts" learn how efficient i)ick and 
shovel may he in securing pnitection 
hom the enemy's missiles. It would he 
ahsurd to imply that they altogether en- 
joyed the enforced inactivity, but the 
week went to swell the aggregate of 
their war experience. Their fellow regi- 
ments in (General Bates' brigade are 
the 3d and 20th Regulars, and their loca- 
tion is in the ravine between two hills 
overlooking the beleaguered city. ( )n 
Sunday, the lOth, they were told that at 
4 p.m., unless ordered to the contrary, 
they were to be in the trenches, and 
once again "the fires of hell were to 
rain on the Spanish Cjuarters." Every 
man was at his post at the appointed 
time, but the signal from General Law- 
ton's gun did not come till 4.45 ; the de- 
lay arising from the coming of one of 
those terrible thunder-storms which del- 
uge everything, and so heavy was the 
thunder, no signal gun could have been 
heard. Every man was as thoroughly 
drenched as if he had been dipped in the 
sea. It was when there came a cessa- 
tion of heaven's artillery that that of 
man began. For two hours there was a 
constant rain of bullets from the men in 
line, while from the hillside cannon 
hurled shot and shell within the Spanish 
intrenchments, effectually silencing such 
artillery as the enemy possessed. \\'hen 
darkness settled down (and it comes 
without twilight in the tropics), the fir- 
ing ceased for the night, to be resumed 
in the morning of the nth, though as 
orders had been given to waste no shots, 
and hostile heads were scarce, the shoot- 
ing was not so vigorous as on the pre- 
ceding day. The cannon, however, bel- 
lowed away at the city, for apparently 
there was nothing else for them to aim 
at. At 4 p.m. firing of all kinds ceases, 
and the men conclude that the game is 
won. 

In the days of noise and confusion, 
the Company's pride, "Couchee," hav- 
ing no use for gunpowder, retired to the 



Comparative (|uiet of Siboney, waiting 
for more |)caceful times. 

The i4tii of July is a red-letter day in 
tuban-.American annals, for then came 
the announcement that Santiago had 
yielded, and that there would be no more 
fighting for her possession. However 
deliglitful the tidings were to the men, 
they were not to exult, as would he nat- 
ural, lest the refrain thereof might be a 
change of mind on the part of the crafty 
Spaniard. Trul\-.tln-re w rre some queer 
things in the management of the Span- 
ish war. When Lee was ])ressed to his 
surrender ;it Appomattox, the I'nion 
soldiers were requested not to cheer on 
account of the heroic defense made by 
the Confederates, and Captain Philli]5S 
told the men of the Texas not to hurrah. 

for, "Don't you see the poor d s are 

dying;" hut there was not hingof the sort 
at Santiago. The S]janiards were not 
dying, neither had their defense been 
particularly notable, but the hot weather 
had evidently its efifecl on the weighty 
figure of the connnander and he did not 
wish any resumption of hostilities nor 
any excuse for such. I'p to this time, 
though the Xinih had been without 
tents of any kind, the health of the men 
has been remarkably good. Of the "Em- 
mets," four only are reported ailing 
viz.. Sergeant McCartin. gunshot wound 
in the hand: Privates lames Mc'irath 




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WORCESTER IN" THE SPANISH WAR. 




T. J. Ke 



anil [olin Larkin, the toniKr dnwn with 
niahirial fever, the latter injured on the 
niglit march from Siboney, all three heinu;- 
luiw in hospital at Key West. l'ri\ate 
(jeorg-e W. Brosnan was taken sick at 
Newport News, before the saiiinj;- of th. 
Harvard, Init he nianat^ed to stave off a 
comi)lete collapse till the middle of the 
month, when at last he yields to what 
the surtjeon pronounces a li.tjht case of 
measles. J'rivate John ('a-~e\-. who tjot 
the clip on the head on his wa\- up to 
San Juan, has recoveretl and came back 
for duty on the 13th : on the 14th come^ 
a diseliar;-;;e for him.and Caj^tain Mo_\'ni- 
han hands it to the soldier, all this the 
result of the efforts of Worcester 
friends who think Private Casey better 
emploved at home, caring for his six 
children, than in stopping possil)le Spa"- 



ULLIVAX. J. F. I.ARXKK. 

ZI'.MRUK. !■:. R. IUkKKK. 

ish lialls in the Cuban field. His dis- 
charge pa|)ers are dated at Washington, 
July 1st. 

It was on the 14th that certain duties 
were assigned to "(i" Company, in the 
guarding of the colors. To Private S. 
was given the special care of the pre- 
cious emblem. During the night Lieu- 
tenant M. was astonished to find his 
guardsman in a state of high excitement, 
dashing about his beat, evidently trying 
to find some hated object. "What's the 
matter with you?" is the officer's query. 
"I'm Irving to find the villain that's hiss- 
ing me : (ion't you hear him ? Let me 
set eves on him and Pll break his nose," 
etc. It appears that a certain Cuban 
nig-ht bird utters a cry not unlike the 
hiss of a goose. As S. was not up on 
his bird-lore, his confusion was not 



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265 




strange, but it took his Lieutenant some 
time to convince him that no cUsrespect 
was intended. 

"After the ball is over," has been sung 
by many a light-hearted pleasure 
lover, and the thought is in many an 
"Emmet"'mind,even though it may not 
find vocal expression. This is the situ- 
ation : rain every day and no tents ; to 
put it most mildly, only indifferent fare ; 
no writing material, nothing to do, at 
least nothing that the men think worth 
doing. If, under such circumstances, 
the innate disposition to kick did not 
develop itself, it would be a wonder. The 
men do not wax fat, the scriptural ac- 
companiment of kicking, for obv-ious 
reasons, yet all things considered, thev 
do maintain a remarkable condition < f 
health. Not a man in the entire regi- 
ment as yet has died, except Privaf 
Doherty, killed in Westboro. on the de- 
parture of the Ninth from Camp Dewey. 
Assistant Surgeon Shea is doing excel- 
lent service in the hospital at Sibonev, 
and the whole work for the regiment de- 
volves upon Surgeon r^Iagurn. He also 
has to look after the other regiments in 
the brigade, since their medical men are 
all at Siboney. Inquiries have been 
sent around to all the companies asking 
for men who have had any sort of med- 
ical experience. In this way drug clerks 
and embryonic doctors are at a pre- 
mium. On the i6th came the tents, 
hitherto held at the landing place in 
Siboney, and visions of some degree of 
comfort are had by the drenched and 
sun-burned men. The i/th of July has 



bright memories in the minds of all sur- 
vivors of the Cuban camjjaign, for then 
came the formal, irrevocable surrender 
of Santiago, and thereby the end of 
Spanish rule in America. 

All the details had been carefully ar- 
ranged, and were carried out with true 
military precision. All of the troops as- 
sembled on the outer breastworks at 
10.30 a.m. Only the higher officers 
could have an immediate part in the his- 
toric scene ; ordinary mortals, like the 
war-hnrse, nuisl snufif the battle from 
afar. At 1 1.45, the boom of cannon told 
the soldiers that the auspicious moment 
had come, and that misrule, extending 
over more than four hundred years, was 
jiassinfv. Fortunately for the pent-up en- 
thusias'm of the Americans, all barriers 
against cheering are broken down, and 
rnen can yell till they are l.oarse, and this 
they proceed to do; while hats go so 
high into the air that they get almost 
be}ond the reach of gravity. There is 
the national salute of twenty-one guns, 
and at noon precisely, the Star-s])angled 
Banner rises over the government build- 
ing of the captured city to the bugle ac- 
companiment along the lines of, "To 
the colors." If the situation had only 
permitted the immediate departure of 
the volunteer soldiers for their far-away 
homes, what a difference there might 
have been in the mortality record of the 
regiment. The real troubles were only 
beginning. There is a deal of talk as to 
what wili be done, and quite as much 
concerning what ought to be done, but. 
meanwhile, there is the unpleasant real- 



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SAX Jl'AX HILL. 



ity of still being in the muddy intreiicli- 
nients about the surrendered city. 

Whether it was in honor of the capitu- 
lation or not, the cook of the "Emmets'" 
did himself proud at the evening's meal 
of the 17th. In some way Chef John 
Creaven had become the possessor of a 
wash-boiler, of \vh(.)se existence, up to 
this moment, in the entire Island no one 
had dreamed, and in some fashion, 
known only to him, he had managed to 
brew a beef stew; perhaps under the cir- 
cumstances it would be proper to call it 
an "Irish stew," though lacking some of 
the ingredients considered essential i<> 
the proper production of that national 
dish. Whatever its constituents and 
whatever the omissions, it touched the 
palates of the partakers to that degree 
that they wanted nothing else, and after 
supper they were ready for song, always 
the recourse of the welf-fed soldier. The 
"Emmets" have singers galore, and Ser- 



geants Moynihan and Lavin, with Pri- 
vate O'Keefe, Musician Skerrett and 
others, make Cuban air resound with 
notes ne'er heard before on Cuban soil. 
Why should they not spend the hours in 
singing? The work for which tliey came 
had been accomplished and did they not, 
in fancy, see the joyous home returning 
and the welcomes to be had in Worces- 
ter Ijright ? What a blessing that heaven 
does from all creatures hide the book of 
fate! All the woes of the pres- 
ent disappear when the stomach is 
full and youthful vigor and valor 
carry their possessors beyond im- 
mediate surroundings, and, l)v ver)- 
contrast, the soldiers grow mellow in 
thinking of the pleasures sure to come 
in the sweet by and by. Later times have 
revealed the fact that the boiler was one 
of the acquisitions made by Lieutenant 
McCann, who discovered it on the dock 
in Santiago resting: on two coffins. For 



EMMET GUAKUS, COM I'AW G. 



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the latter he had no use, hut he couhl 
see boundless utiHty in the boiler. Ac- 
cording'ly, by a process of appro|iriation, 
readily excused because of his com- 
pany's great need, he fastened to it. and 
the incident just given was one of the 
happy results of his thoughtfulness. 

On the i8th, the "Emmets" moved 
away from their former station, stopping 
finally nearer the centre of the lines, 
making their camp near the headquar- 
ters of General "Joe" Wheeler. The 
regimental neighbors are the ist Dis- 
trict of Columbia and the 1st Illinois 
Volunteers, and the site is about one 
mile from the old locality. The depriva- 
tions suffered in the recent camp are 
now bearing expected fruit. Alternate 
drenching and parboiling, with insuffi- 
cient nourishment, along with the want 
of proper medical attention, are making 
many men respond to the sick call who 
otherwise would be up and doing. The 
camp complaints, known to old cam- 
paigners, viz., dysentery and fever, make 
their appearance, and misery is the rule. 
The shelter tents given out after the 
surrender are not a protection in se- 
vere rain, and even the ponchos leak. 
Patients who show marks of improve- 
ment are going aboard the transports 
fi)r a homeward trip, with the hope that 
an ocean voyage may completely restore 
them. Lieutenant-colonel Logan of the 
Ninth, having succumbed to illness, 
started for the North on the 24th. The 
first death in the Company is recorded 
on the 23d. Private Henry Sullivan, hav- 
ing been out of sorts for a few days, had 



been sent to the hos])ital for better 
treatment. l)Ut the lack of physicians 
rendered llial almost im]iii>sil)le. Nei- 
ther he niir his comrades api)rcciated 
the inuiiinence of his danger, for misled 
by apjiarent improvement, assisted by 
two companions, at 2.30 p.m. Saturday 
he undertook to walk a little ways. On 
their route they encountered another 
poor fellow unaccompanied, who could 
scarcely drag his body along. On see- 
ing him, Sullivan called out, and they 
were said to be his last words, "That's 
right, boy ; hold right up and keep on 
your feet. Tliat's the only way to get 
well." Five minutes later, or at 3 o'clock, 
he toppled over into his comrades' arms 
and was dead. The doctors called it 
"heart failure." It seemed strange, for, 
really, the last thing to fail was the sol- 
dier's heart. 

Between death and burial, only a brief 
period intervenes in the tropics. At 5 
p.m., clad in his full dress uniform, laid 
upon a stretcher and borne by his com- 
rades, Joyce. Leonard, Martin, (irady. 
Gilmore and Edward Sullivan, his body 
is carried to its resting place, where it 
is to sleep till his country disinters it 
for removal to his home city. All of the 
oflScers and men of the "Emmets" who 
are in camp, march beside the bier, and 
listen to the words of Chaplain Murphy 
as he pronounces the solemn words of 
the church over the grave. Then fol- 
low three volleys from the men of the 
Company, and "taps.'' sounded by Musi- 
cian Skerrett, eloquently breathe a sad 
farewell to the fallen comrade. This was 



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SCENE OF HOIiSON'S EXCHANCE AND IHE .sK.MNi 



)!■ IHE I'Kl.LI.MIXAK'l TREATY. 



the only military funeral observed in 
Cuba, the effect by way of melancholy 
being too much for the rank and file. 
Major Grady marched with his men in 
honor of Sullivan, and two days later he 
was laid beside the private. 

Time drags slowly ahnig in their 
Cuban camjjs and the average mind can 
find no good reason why the "recall" 
is not sounded in Washington. To lie 
suri, there is an occasional visit to the 
citv of Santiago, and the traveler com- 
pares the S])anisli jilace with those he 
has known at home, and every day 
thanks his stars lie was nut hmn a S])an- 
iard; but even this palls after awhile. 
Tt is too hot for drilling, and the men 
are not well enough for the exercise 
even if the weather permitted. Reading- 
matter is scarce and letters from home 
come infrecpiently, and when they do 
there is no writing material for replies. 
Still, though the march of Time is slow, 



he finally reaches August, and home is 
nearer than it was. The last month of 
the Cuban stay finds the men encamped 
on the very hill up which the heroes of 
July 1st and 2d charged to victory and 
innnortality. The situation is a great 
im])ro\'ement o\'er the low-lying loca- 
tion of the 2d Massachusetts, where 
other \N'orcester boys are dying all too 
rapidly. The former rulers call the 
height "Tableau Hill," but to the Amer- 
icans it is "Bloody Hill," a fitting ap- 
pellation for the scene of so much 
i)rayer\- and loss of life. While onl\ one 
of the "I'jnmets" has died, the niortal- 
il\- in tlie regiment, particularly among 
the field officers, is great. Colonel Bogan 
and the Lieutenant-colonel have gone 
home ill, while Majors Grady and 
( )'Connor have both crossed over, and 
the eonunand rests on Major Donovan. 
Adventures are not numerous, but oc- 
casionally there is a happening worthy 



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of mention. "Prince" P. and friends 
had been down to Siboney and there 
had secured a coffee-grinder, deeming 
the same a handy item for camp use. Re- 
turning, they encountered a party of 
Cubans, who had in their possession a 
very fine parrot. The "Prince" wanted 
the bird badly, but the natives would not 
agree as to terms, but they were quick- 
ly brought to time by the quick-witted 
soldier, who, bringing his coffee mill to 
his face, began to turn the crank. The 
sound was so suggestive of a (jatling 
gun that the Cubans surrendered at 
once and passed over the parrot without 
further parley. Afterwards, in token 
of his appreciation of his services to the 
Company, it was presented to Dr. '!'. J. 
Foley of Worcester. 

Saturday, the 6th of August, the 3d 
and 6th Regulars went aboard the 
transport, and the volunteers, beholding, 
took heart, feeling that their own em- 
barking could not be so very far away. 
One of the Company on this day takes 
a trip to Santiago, and en route calls on 
his acquaintances in the 2d Regiment. 
He finds Colonel Clark and Lieuten- 
ant-colonel Shumway asleep in their 
tents and forbears awaking them, but 
with Captain Barrett of the City Guards 
he exchanges words of greeting, think- 



ing the latter quite comfortable as he 
occupies his hammock beneath his tent, 
sure to stay there while it rained. Major 
l'"airl)anks also is alert as usual, thougli 
somewhat worn and wasted, but tanned 
to a turn and evidently seeing all that 
is visible in the cami^aign. In Santiago 
he finds the saloons not so well pat- 
ronized as they might be had the pav- 
master been around recently. Milwau- 
kee beer at forty cents a bottle, fifty 
with ice, is quite Ijeyond the resources 
of his purse, hence he contents himself 
with four glas,ses of alleged lemonade, 
though just where the lemon is tlie 
drinker failed to discover. He drank 
for the ice. and considered it cheap at 
ten cents a glass. It took five to quench 
the thirst of his comrade. The U. S. 
Post Office he found the busiest place 
in the city, and, volunteers having been 
called for, he is pleased to find iiere, hard 
at work, P. J. O'Keefe of the "Emmets,'' 
who had left the Worcester office 
when his country called, and is espe- 
cially efficient in sorting out the mail 
that is to go to the men of his own Com- 
pany. 

Till the regiment leaves the Island tiie 
record is little else than one of illness 
and subsecpient weakness, the few who 
are at all equal to duty finding a double 
portion, owing to the enfeebled condi- 



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SANTIA<; 



Die crnA FkllM T[IIC IIARMOR. 



til 111 iif the others. .\s mie memlier of 
the "Eniniets" writes, "The fever attacks 
a person with pains in the head and 
back, and generally lasts from five to 
twelve days, during which time a man 
goes through a series of chills and 
fever which leaves him so weak that he 
is unable to walk about for at least two 
weeks." The inadequate hospital ac- 
commodations render the mortality very 
great, and even if the jiatient recovers 
he is subjected to so much dis- 
comfort afterwards that his suf- 
ferings are immeasurably increased. 
August I2th, the Imspital ship 
Breakwater api^eared off the Island, 
and one of her passengers, Halleck 
Bartlett, of Worcester, who has a son in 
the Light Infantry, gladdens the hearts 
of the men by presenting himself in 
camp. He is in charge of the volunteer 
relief fund, contributed by Worcester 
people, and delicacies and necessities are 
expected from him. On this day, too, 
comes a set of underwear for each mem- 



ber of the Company, a boon of the 
choicest character. 

Right here it should be stated that 
whatever the citizens of Worcester in- 
tended to do for the "Emmets," the fore- 
going gifts of underwear and a huge 
box of cigarettes and tobacco, with a 
certain amount in cash, were all the boys 
received. What the gifts were and 
where they went, to this day no man 
knows, or if he does know he is a mas- 
ter of silence. There have been all sorts 
of conjectures, but they have solved 
nothing. They never doubted the good 
intentions of \\'orcester nor the integ- 
rity of the city's representatives, but 
tlie\' had to recognize a failure to con- 
nect. However, "heaven helps them 
who help themselves."' In this case, it 
was that sleepless, tireless Lieutenant 
McCann who discovered heaps and 
heaps of good things down near the 
Santiago docks. On assuring the keeper 
that many of those things belonged to 
his Company, he was told to go through 



EMMET GUARDS, COMrA.NV G. 



•dll 



the same and pick out whatever was his. 
So keen was his eye and so long his arm 
that it took a six-mule team to carry the 
result to camp. The contents of that 
covered wagon actually stuck out above 
the hoops — malted milk, canned goods, 
food and supplies of all sorts — till the 
boys proclaimed their Lieutenant a gen- 
uine successor of Sherman's Bummers, 
and if they had lost at the Worcester 
spigot they had surely gained at the 
providential bunghole. How lucky it is 
that "all's fair in war." 

Sunday, the 14th, Chaplain Murphy 
at mass made feeling reference to the 
death of Colonel Bogan, whose decease, 
announced in a cable message from Con- 
gressman Fitzgerald, is keenly felt by 
all his men. with whom he was a great 
favorite. Worcester boys are learning 
the difference between the Cuban and 
the Spaniard. For the Cuban he has 
no use whatever, considering him lazy, 
andalwaj'sso.unwillingtowork as long 
as a crust even can be begged ; while in 
the Spaniard he detects some remnants 
of that high-bred courtesy which gave a 
reputation to the natives of Casti'e. 
Those who visit Santiago note the en- 
terprise of American beer manufactur- 
ers, who are well nigh omnipresent and 
are exceedingly anxious to piisli the sale 
of their wares. Some of the soldiers 
imbibe to excess, but this can hardly 
apply to the men of the Xinth, since the 
long absence of the paymaster has re- 
duced nearly every man to a "dead- 
broke" condition. There are certain 
clubs where officers can get American 
dishes, and certain ?ilassachusetts men 
remark that, if they had the money, they 
would certainly borrow an officer's coat 
long enough to buy and eat a dish of 
baked beans. 

The fact that the Harvard and Yak- 
were lying off the harbor of Santiago 
inspired the Xinth Regiment with the 
hope that it might take the homeward 
trip in one of them, but the men had the 
mortification of seeing regiments which 
had arrived later and had seen very lit- 
tle hardship, go aboard these finely ap- 
pointed vessels, while they were detained 
for what proved to be a floating horror. 



F'rivate and Postman O'Kecfc, who had 
been away from his Company for some 
days in the Post (Jffice of Santiago, re- 
ceived, in common with his comrades, 
a notification that the regiment was 
about to embark for the States. Xot 
caring to take any unnecessary steps, he 
met his Company in the city rather than 
return to camp. The latter had been 
broken im tin- 23d. and weak, weary 
and halting the men had reached the 
wharf in that far-famed place. Let his 
own words tell what he saw after a sep- 
aration of three weeks: "The meeting 
of the Company and myself at the wharf 
I shall never forget. Such emaciated 
specimens (if men I had never met. I 
realized in a moment what havoc the 
dread disease had wrought in three 
weeks. Half the Company had not 
strength to rise, and many were 
so ill that they failed to recognize 
me. Those who could not walk had to 
be carried on board the lighter which 
conveyed the troops to the transport, 
which was anchored out in the bay. 
This transport was inadecpiate to prop- 
erly carr\- more than one-half the num- 
ber. Soldiers in the last stages cf dis- 
ease, those half well and those (juite so 
were all huddled together." He further 
remarks that at least two hundred of 
these men were ht subji'ets fnr a Ikjs- 




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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




pitalslii]i,liut tile Hay State was already 
crowded, so ])erfcjrce the invalids are 
taken along' with the others, and, worse 
still, companies that were not assig'ned 
to the Alle,r;'heny liave sent some of their 
sick ahnard. in the h(i])e that a lireath 
of sea air nia_\' help them to recover. 
The regiment broke camp at 8 a.m. of 
the 23d, and marched the three miles 
distance into Santiago. The sick and 
those getting better were taken in 
springless mule wagons, which jolted 
them so badly that some essayed walk- 
ing. Those who rode all the way were 
worse off than those who walked. From 
8 of the morning till 5 p.m. there was 
a tedious wait till. l)y the smaller boat, 
the eight companies were conveyed to 
the Allegheny. All were glad to shake 
off the last trace of Cuban soi., confident 
that any change would be an improve- 
ment. 



J. ]. Fitzgerald. 

LLICUDDY. 

M. J. Flynn. 

The transport steams away from 
Cuba, Wednesday, the 24th, and our 
last Worcester Company bids good-by 
to the liberated Island, though it must 
be suspected that some of the loyal 
hearts are wondering if the price has not 
been a heavy one. Only two days later 
came the first burial at sea, but in the 
following hours the scene was fre(|uently 
repeated. Sunday no less than four 
fmuid an ocean grave, and one of them 
was a Worcester lioy. Edward Sulli- 
van had been one of the strong men of 
the Comiiany and had not been sick 
while on the Island, l)ut the verv day of 
departure he began to complain of ill 
feelings, a circumstance so odd that 
some of his comrades jollied him, think- 
ing he must be shamming, so vigorous 
had he been ; but as the hours went by, 
his fever, said to be typhoid, grew 
worse till he became delirious, and Sun- 



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day, the 28th, at 7.30 p.m., his hammock 
swinging near an open port hole, in tlie 
absence of a guard, he threw himself 
thence into the sea. By a singular fortune 
it was his own Lieutenant, AlcCann, who 
was standing in the vessel's stern and 
suddenly saw the form of a man rise 
from the waves and apparently turn his 
face towards the ship. His immediate 
cry of "man overboard" was answered 
at once by the lowering of a boat, the 
stopping of the transport, and a diligent 
search, lasting fully half an hour, failed 
to reveal any trace of the unfortunate 
soldier. Private Charles J. McAIann 
died on the 30th, and the next morning 
his body was consigned to the deep. 
Chaplain Murphy reading the prayers 
for the dead, and Bugler Skerrett sound- 
ing "taps." Mc^^Iann had been ill for 
some time, but had been discharged 
from the hospital as recovered, thougli 
his recovery was fancied rather than 
real, and before his death he had entirely 
lost his reason. Early the next day, the 
31st, Private Michael Healy died. II<- 
had been sick for a fortnight before the 
sailing of the transport, had failed rap- 
idly after the start, and died of exhaus- 
tion incident to the campaign. Two 
other men from other companies had 
died during the same night, and that 
their burial might be in deep water, the 



Allegheny slopped and went back some 
miles, and at 0. 15 a.m. the four bodies 
were given to the waves with lull mili- 
tary honors, the flag flying at half mast, 
and with the officers and men of the 
"lunniets" standing by. In all, fourteen 
men of the Ninth died on this tortuous 
trip to Montauk, and each body was of- 
fered as a tribute to the ocean, there to 
repose till the seas give U].) tlieir dead. 

Many reasons have been advanced 
i' >r the mortality aboard the Allegheny: 
lack of hospital acconunodations, tne 
enfeebled condition of the men, etc., 
but all agree as to the Imrribly unsani- 
tary state of the transport itself. Hav- 
ing recently carried cattle, no efifort at 
cleansing had been made, only the divi- 
sions had been removed, and into such 
filthy space human beings like "dumb 
driven cattle" wt-re herded. The won- 
der is that so many lixed, not that four- 
teen died. 

The body of Cajjtain Dunn of the 
loth U. S.. killed before Santiago, was 
carried homeward in an imperfectly 
sealed casket. The stench therefrom was 
horrible. Only the Allwise knows how 
many living were sacrificed through this 
mistaken sentiment for the dead. 

It is Wednesday, the 31st, and last 
dav of Autrust, that the .Alleirhenv 







.VP;«a^f'-- ■: 1 




"^HS^^^Kjtlf .-^^H 





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WORCESTER IN THE SI'AXISH WAR. 



reaches Montauk Point at ') o'c'.ock 
a.m. So far as the weather was con- 
cerned, the voyag-e had lieen a smooth 
one, and a day"s time liad been saved in 
the passag;e, perhaps the only fact con- 
nected with the vessel for which the pas- 
sengers were thankful. The constant 
presence of death had a depressing- influ- 
ence on the passengers and enthusiasm 
seemed to be a forgotten trait. Onlv 
when the shores of the cnntinent a])- 
peared, as the vessel neared Hatteras, 
did the men seem to appreciate the fact 
that home was the locality soutrht. At 



At 8.30 of the 31st, they were met by 
the government tug, with orders to pro- 
ceed up the Sound. Next came the 
health boat, the Louise Pulver, and at 
9.30 anchor was cast and the health offi- 
cer came aboard. Then followed the 
lining up and the inspection, which was 
very rigid. The verdict of the officer 
was that, with the possible exception of 
the 71st New York, the Ninth presented 
the worst condition of any returning 
regiment. Lieutenant AlcCann and Ser- 
geant William Casey are the only men 
in the Company who have not been sick, 




9 a.m., Tuesday, the 30th, the steamer 
Gloucester was spoken and the Alleghe- 
ny's company were attracted by the ap- 
pearance of we'1-dressed men and women 
who crowded the former's decks. When 
they learned that the transport was car- 
lying the major part of the Ninth Mas- 
sachusetts Regiment, they rent the air 
with their enthusiastic cheering, while 
the vessel's horn added to the din, all 
combining to tone up the spirits of the 
boys amazinfi^ly. The officers of the 
Gloucester kindly megaphoned to find if 
they could be of any service. 



afloat or ashore. Through their immu- 
nity they have been of inestimable ser- 
vice to their suffering comrades. The 
officers of the Ninth did not take their 
meals with the men, but had a mess of 
their own, using the ship's dining room 
at a cost of $1.50 per day. The long ab- 
sence i)f the paymaster was evident 
when, at the close of the first day, an at- 
tempt was made to collect the assess- 
ment. ( )nly three officers were able to 
properly respond. However, a check 
book was developed so that food was en- 
joyed, though the pay therefor was to 



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275 



come later. The "luiimcts" have only 
pleasant words for the officers of the 
Allegheny, Captain Nickerson doing 
many favors to the sick and hungry, and 
Chief Engineer E. J. (iiiinnier was 
specially serviceable to the hoNS home- 
ward bound. 

There may be said of the "Emmets" 
what would not be true of any other 
company in the regiment, that the com- 
missioned officers were never absent 
and were ever alive to the needs of their 
men. With proper influence, on this 
homeward trip, the\- secured from the 



who gave the lunmet address just be- 
fore the Company volunteered. 

.Meantime, on the shore of Montauk 
Point, there is a gathering of Worces- 
ter people exceedingly an.xious to greet 
their returning friends. The X'eleran 
.Xssociation of the "Enunets" are in 
evidence on the morning of tlie 30th. 
but the e\i)ected vessel is still on the 
\\a\-. 1 )r. Peter O. Shea, an Assistant 
.Surgeon of the Ninth, and a Worcester 
boy, who had been invalided home, and 
now convalescent, had come down from 
Worcester to receive the boys as they 




ship's steward the material for a mild 
milk punch, of which Lieutenant .Mc- 
Cann was the dispenser. He says that 
his pleasure at relieving some of his 
own men was robbed of half its effect 
through seeing the longing eyes of other 
sufferers to whom he could not minister, 
he believing that his charity should be- 
gin at home. Then he was truly a min- 
istering angel and blessings many were 
called down upon his head. The stew- 
ard of the Allegheny was a brother ot 
the Rev. George W. Pepper of Ohio. 



landed, but he had overrated his strength 
and was obliged to return home again. 
Dr. Timothy J. Foley is another doctor 
from the Heart of the Commonwealth, 
and he awaits the Allegheny. There 
are newspaper men and other citizens, 
all anxiously looking for the coming of 
the vessel. There is a large quantity of 
supplies, either here or coming, which 
shall aid in restoring the soldiers to their 
normal condition, all contributed by 
Worcester people. General "Joe" 
Wheeler is in command at Camp Wikoff, 



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and to liini 1 'r. l-'olcy had gone wlicn he 
found hini.-eU' unattended by the nota- 
bles of the home committee, related his 
story and told the Alabamian what he 
wanted to d<>. The scheme seemed to 
please the veteran and he gave the phy- 
sician a pass which wnuld admit him to 
the detention camp when the boys 
should reach it, and to lliem inuncdiatcly 



when they came, he also gave directions 
for the use of a wagon to transport the 
supplies as soon as they were unloaded. 
I-'or the General, Dr. Foley had only the 
highest praises. 

"There's many a slip 'twixt cup and 
lip," is a time-worn saw and never bet'ter 
applied than when a soldier-bearing ves- 
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duriii"' weary days and nis^lits, yt-l de- 
barred from landiiii;- her living Inirden 
because of the rule intervening. "Sn 
near and yet so far," was in the mind of 
more than one gazer from the decks (if 
the Allegheny as he looked off to the 
promised 'and w here he knew abundance 
awaited him. .\t i p.m. tlu- (|uarantine 
boat returned bringing six cases of eggs, 
two hundred quarts of milk and more 
than four hundred sandwiches. Red 
Cross supplies. Never was relief more 
opportune. F.siffs and milk mingled 
make a wonderfully invigorating drink 
for the almost famished men. Two hours 
later comes the hospital ship, Mgilant, 
and upon her decks are liorne the sick, 
who to the number of one hundred and 
fifty are taken ofif. It is just before 
noon, Septemberist, that a barge bearing 
the eight companies of the Ninth is 
towed up to a dock and the fever- 
stricken men once more stand on Amer- 
ican soil. Perhaps the coming was a 
bit earlier than was expected, since 
guards were not posted, and for a few 
minutes there was an unrestricted greet- 
ing of soldiers and friends who had 
crowded down to the landing for this 
very purpose. "Tis said that Peter F. 
Sulliyan, one of the regimental buglers 
and the Gazette correspondent, was the 
first man ashore, and was nearly omni- 
present in his hand-shaking mission. 
Either in ambulance or afoot the men 
take up their march to the camp, ac- 
companied by Drs. Foley and James E. 
McGourty, both Worcester men who 
are to remain with the "Emmets" till 
they are freed from quarantine. 

On this progress campward, "Cou- 
chee" is again in evidence. Though 
sleek in flesh, he is susceptible to ex- 
treme heat. In Santiago he had yielded 
to the sun"s rays, and had been dipped 
into a swamp for resuscitation. To-day 
he turned over on his back and his four 
feet seemed to supplicate help. Lieu- 
tenant McCann bore him in his arms till, 
reaching the camp of the Rough Riders, 
and finding a barrel of drinking water, 
he dumped him in. Thereupor. the ten- 
der-hearted officer was in danser of his 



life;it llif lianils of the iratehustlers.but 
who relented at once when they learned 
the situation. Though revived by his 
jilunge, the mascot staggered some, see- 
ing which an amiable surgeon directed 
that he be carried in an ambulance to 
detention camp. Was ever other dog 
thus honored? 

.■\s is often the case when opportunity 
ofifers, our men in detention cam]), hav- 
ing- a chance to partake liberally of the 
good things offered in the way of food, 
ate too freely and, as a consequence, 
suffered from deranged stomachs and 
again had to go upon short rations, this 
time not for the lack of food, but be- 
cause of its superabundance. Men are 
only children of larger growth, and the 
mothers represented were not near to 
advise their progeny as to the proper 
time and quantity. Beef tea and malted 
milk become the somewhat limited fare 
of the ailing lads, and they begin to 
wonder what their stomachs were made 
for. Drs. Foley and McCiourty are in at- 
tendance, and to them must be added the 
name of Dr. John Ronayne, another 
Worcester boy, who has come to the 
cam]) to hel]) take care of his old-time 
friends. The principal subjects of con- 
versation are the end of their stay in 
quarantine and the date of the start for 
home, which for this occasion will come 
nearer heaven than anything as yet ex- 
perienced by these young men. A long- 
looked-for and anxiously expected event 
was recorded on \\'edncsday, Sept. 7th, 
viz., the visit of the ])aymaster. Not 
since the days of Camp .\lger had such 
a personage revealed himself to the regi- 
ment, and for many a long week the 
pockets of the men had been conspicu- 
ous for their emptiness. Congressman 
Mtzgerald is extremely active, trying to 
devise somemeansof securing better uni- 
forms for the regiment on its return to 
.Massachusetts. Visitors from the Bay 
.'^tate are numerous, and among those 
from Worcester are the Rev. D. F. Mc- 
(iillicuddy, Richard Healy and Mark 
Skerrett, brother of the Company Musi- 
cian. During all these days, "Couchee," 
the Company mascot, lias no complaint 



WORCESTKU IX THE SPAXISH WAR. 







to make of his usage, and umlcr the care 
of "Prince" Prendiville is as fat as ever, 
in tiiis respect setting an exaniple fur 
the iither nieni1)ers of the "JMnmet^.' 
'J'he period (if detentinn ended Sunda\ , 
the 4th, and nominallv the boys conM 
receive visitors, but there was all the 
time some reason why unrestricted in 
terviewing was impossible 

The route to be taken "u the home- 
ward way was a prominent theme, and 
Hon. Jolm T'". I'itzgerald and Senatur 
George V. Hoar were doing all in 
their power to have the \\'orcester men 
sent thither ')y tiie shortest and cpiickest 
way possible, but red tape and military 
delay are more potent than statesmen, 
and when the time really arrives, our 
bovs go the longest way round. At 10 
a.m.. \\'eihiesda\ . it was given out that 
the dep.arture would be on the following 
(lav. hut as tlie new suits of blue had not 
arrived, the men could hardly believe 
that the\ were really to go. Tlien caiue 



KR(i CASTI.i:, 

on a severe rain stonu. with a conse- 
(pu'ut lowering (jf the temperature that 
chilled these fe\er-racked frames to the 
marr(.iw, and lights went out early ni 
the hope of securing blanket warmth 
not jiossible in any other manner. It 
was "lM\-e ( )'Clock in the Morning,"" 
Thursday, that the boys were routed 
from their tents and told to make ready 
fur the leaving of Cam|> W'ikoff. Once 
more comes the contradiction of rumors 
and reports: the only certain thing is 
that the rt-'gimeut does not move. \'(.iw 
comes the Hon. John 1". h^itzgerald 
again, and on galhjjjing steed he seeks 
the side and ear of (icneral Shafter and 
])leads. nay demands, that the men be 
allowed to go. with or without um- 
lonns. \\ hat is the difference to dying 
UK-n whether they be clad in blue or 
brown r ,\t 10 o'clock, the Representa- 
tive comes into camp whirling, bearing 
the glad intelligence that the boys are 
to g(.i at once, h'verv one nuist l)e ready 



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279 



to niarcli in an huur, hut not till i p.m. 
does tlie rt-ginient rracli the lloatino- 
dock below the railroad station. Just 
eleven "Enimets" are al)le to walk to 
the wharf. Again it is the Mgilant 
which is to convey the men to Xew Lon- 
don. The crowd is a dense one that 
fills all of the steamer's space, and be- 
sides the soldiers, are manv Worcester 
citizens, as Drs. Folev, McGourtv, 
Joseph H. Kelley, M. F. Fallon, T. A. 
O'Callaghan. \Mlliam j. Delahantv. T. 
W. Mckoan. the Rev." D. F. McGilfi- 
ciiddy, Michael L. Russell and Frank J. 
Moynihan. 

Loading and transit take so much 
time that not till 5 o'clock in the after- 
noon does the steamer enter Xew Lon- 
don Harbor. By shrill whistles and sa- 
lutes from cannon, the coming of the 
regiment is announced to the people of 
the Connecticut city, and the_v come 
crowding down to the wharf to see the 
soldiers land. The first to meet the 
"Emmets" are the members of the 
recej)tion committee from ^\'orcester. 
who. with Robert Kessell as director, 
serve refreshments to the bovs. The 
latter are in a wonderfully receptive 
mood, since their breakfast had been 
taken hours before among the saml 
dunes of Montauk. Another disap- 
pointment awaits the men, for instead 
of following the Thames River north- 
ward, as so many^ \\'orcester people 
have been doing for fully fifty years, 
the train takes them to Providence. 
Just why, no man can tell, unless to 
swell the receipts of the railroad, to 
whose mercies they are committed. 
Nine o'clock in the evening finds the 
regiment in Rhode Island's principal 
city, and about as far from home as 
when they left New London. Owing 
to their enfeebled condition sleeping- 
cars had been provided for the men, 
and some of them, including Captain 
Moynihan, were compelled to retire at 
once. 

Though the ride from Providence to 
Worcester is not a long one, to the 
anxious passengers it is long enough, 
and their arrival at 10.45 P-^- is none 
too soon. The public parade and recep- 
tion so dear to the hearts of all re- 



turning soldiers had to be given up on 
account ijf the weakened state of the 
men themselves, and the throngs 
which tilled L'nion Station soon had 
ocular evidence that tor such emaci- 
ated figures, home, mother and the best 
of care are the things most desirable 
now. A force of above fifty jiolicemen 
had roped oft' the entire train shed and 
a considerable portion of Washington 
Square, in anticipation of the hosts that 
would press in upon the return- 
ing "Emmets." Within the inclosed 
limits only those wearing badges, giv 
en out by the honorary cor|)s. were 
to be admitted. Of this organization 
there were present one hundred mem- 
bers, headed by the President, John J. 
Riordan. \'ice-president George ;\Ic- 
Aleer. Secretary William J. Tansey 
and M. B. Lamb. ,\lso there were 
seventv-five of the ladies belonging to 
the Auxiliary, some of the "Emmet" 
veterans of the Rebellion, Colonel 
Fred. W. Wellington, Colonel E. J. 
Russell, .\lderman T. J. ISarrett. Coun- 
cilmen Philip J. O'Connell and B. H. 
McAIahon, General .\. P.. R. Sprague, 
M. J. Whittall and the Rev. Roland A. 
Xichols. '1 he ]3reparations were good 
and. luider ordinary circumstances, 
coidd have been carrietl out as de- 
signed, but this is no ordinarv occa- 
sion. .Scarcely is the train of Pullman 
coaches in the shed than the crowd 
broke all barriers and made a mad rush 
for the last car, in which are their 
friends the "Emmets." Hands by the 
thousand are reached up in a vain ef- 
fort to grasp those of dear ones seen 
through the car windows. There are wom- 
en who, having near and dear relatives 
in the Company, fight their way to the 
side of the car, that they may first greet 
the returning soldier. For a moment 
it looked as though all order and re- 
straint had succumbed to the one mad 
attempt to reach the loved one. At the 
best, of G Company there are less than 
half the number that, four months 
before, had ridden away so l)ravcly ; 
the others are hovering between life 
and death in the hospital, are already 
convalescing at home, or sleeping the 
dreamless sleep that knows no waking. 



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WIIRCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 




Jl I INAI. SrRKKX|li:K, SAN1IAI,( 



Only a Salvator Rosa could do jus- 
tice in depicting such a scene, l;)ut. for- 
tunately, there were men in the throng 
who never flinch for one minute. The 
men <>{ the honorary corps jnin hands 
and, by sheer strength, force the 
masses back from the side of the car. 
The old train shed had beheld many 
a sad scene in the long years of occu- 
pancy, but never one more pathetic 
than that which follows. Dr. Joseph 
H. Kelley apjicars upon the platform 
and shouts to the swaying throng, 
"There is a guard at either end 
of this car, and no man or woman will 
be permitted to enter, and no man will 
be allowed to leave, till this crowd has 
fallen back so that these men can t)e 
taken out. There is not a man in this 
car who is able to walk ten feet, and 
we will keep them in the car all night 
unless re Him i^ made so that they can 
be taken to the carriages." Like the 
words of Webster on Bunker Hill, 
spoken to the thronging multitude at 



the corner-stone laying. Dr. Kelley's had 
the desired effect, and in spite of 
the number and almost insane in- 
terest, a passage-Avay wide enough 
for three persons to walk abreast 
was cleared to a place in front 
of the station, where the carriages were 
stationed. Then come the men, one at 
a time, to be escorted by two of the 
honoraries to the provided carriage. 
First comes T^ieutenant William E. 
McCann, and in his arms is the mas- 
cot, "Couchee," which is speedily given 
to his whilom owner, Michael McCar- 
thy, and the Lieutenant then returns 
to his comrades. Even cheering, the 
\ent of pent-up American enthusiasm, 
is frowned upon, for at a feeble at- 
lem[)t to shout. Dr. Kelley exclaims. 
"I-'or (lod's sake, peoide, do not begin 
to cheer ; these men are sick and must 
not be excited ; in their condition ex- 
citement is death." No matter how 
long their li\-es, to few men is given 
such a gauntlet of loving, pitying 



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Corp. F. H. Uoka 



N. J. 



glances as that throug-h which the sur- 
viving members of Company "(i" ])ass. 
on their way to the carriages which are 
to bear them home, where is waiting — 

"A happy 'welcome — welcome home' for 
each." 

While the order of General "Joe" 
Wheeler as the Ninth was leaving 
Montauk was for the regiment, one- 
twelfth of it belongs to the Worcester 
boys, and it should have place in these 
pages : 

Camp Wikokf. Montauk Poixt, L. I., 

Sept. 8. 1898. 
Major Donovan, 

Commanding gth Rofiiniont, Massachusetts 
Volunteers. 

Dear Sir: I cannot allow your gallant com- 
mand to leave Camp Wikoff without express- 
ing tny admiration for the gallant services 
rendered in Cuba, .\lthough your regiment 
did not arrive on the Island in time to be par- 
ticipants in the first engagement, it came upon 
the scene of action at a time when its services 
were most necessary. 

The chivalrous devotion to duty displayed by 
your men in marching iminediately to the front 
in the face of the fire of the enemy, and the 
hardships endured in being compelled to remain 
in the hot sun and driving rain without shelter 
and without food, will mark a new era in the 
history of American bravery. 

The people of the United States have reason 
to be grateful to the grand old Comniowcalth 
of Massachusetts for the magnificent part she 
has taken in the present struggle, and amongst 
the galaxy of sons she has sent to the front 
none have won their honors with greater credit 
than the men of the gth. 

Wishing you and your conniiand a safe jour- 
ney home, 

JOSEPH WHEELER. 
Major General of U. S. Volunteers. 



Every member 
bore his part 
portion of this 



of the Company who 

is entitled to his 

praise from the 



gallant ex-Confederate who, in his 
deeds in Culia, endeared himself 
and did nnich tn efface any blame at- 
taching for his former devotion to the 
Lost Cause. His words should be a 
heritage for the generations to come, 
attesting the heroism of the fathers 
who risked health and life to right the 
wrongs of a long-oppressed and down- 
trodden people. 

They were trying days which suc- 
ceeded the home-coming, for were 
there nut Inmdreds of loving friends 
who. in their efforts to feed and fondle 
the boys, would have undone all thi- 
work I if the ]>hysicians in trying In 
bring their charges back again tu 
health and strengtii? h'ew of the sol- 
diers were seen in the street on the 
day after, and only as normal vigor 
began to return, did the men appear 
in their accustomed haunts. Then fol- 
lowed an exhibition of the devotion of 
those who had only heard of the Cuban 
vicissittides. To a call for volunteer 
nurses. Misses Rand. Ilartwell, Farley. 
()"Ciorman. Delaney, McCiourty and 
l\onayne speedily responded. Stable- 
man Joini r. McDonald and Callahan 
I!ros. otTered the free use of four hacks 
each, that these nurses might have easy 
and ready carriage to their respective 
patients. With the city divided into 
sections it was possible to give to the 
men the care and attention from the 
lack of which they had so long suf- 
fered. On the 9th. or the day follow- 
ing the return, two more of the Com- 
pany, Corporal John F. Horan and 
[ohn F. Keegan. passed away in the 
hospital at }iIontauk, and on the 5th 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



Joseph X. Coffee, one nf the reeruits. 
"died at Camp Meade, in Pennsylvania. 
Thus of the full Company which went 
away from the city, eight are in the 
other world, while certain of the sur- 
vivors are endeavoring to regain their 
strength in their respective homes. 

On the 14th of Septemher, Michael 
J. Russell left for Montauk, under the 
direction of the honoraries. to look af- 
ter the "Emmets" still in the hos- 
])ital there, and for two weeks he faith- 
fully discharged his duty. He was for- 
tunate in finding the Worcester doctor. 
I. A. Konavne, whn, like himself, had 



died cin the 15th of Septemher, anr. 
John j. Creaven on the 25th. For all 
the men there was an extended sick 
lea\e, during which time they had the 
privilege of recuperating as hcst they 
could. It should be stated that every 
man had his fever sooner or later. If 
he came off the Island well, he was 
stricken after reaching home, if not be- 
fore. One of the very last to yield was 
Lieutenant McCann. whose sinewy 
frame resisted all attacks into the 
month of Xo\eml)er. when he went 
down all at once, and for the ensuing 
two \ears did not know a well dav. 




.\ ".Mc; 



a personal interest in the sick men 
from this city. ( *n his return he 
brought with him as far ;is l'rovi<lence 
the bov Ciecjrge Corbin, who insisted 
on going with the "i'"mniets." whether 
enlisted or not. ( )n reaching I'roxi- 
dence the lad. \ er\- weak, was trans- 
ferred to St. I'eter's Hospital. This 
Young man, whom no li.ardship nor re- 
Imff could d.-iunt in his determination 
to go with the ( onipany to L'uba. had 
managed to get abo.inl the Harvard 
^dntrarv to the orders of the oftieers. 
but once on bo;ird it w;is thought best 
to gi\i.- him all the chance possible. 
When old mougli he enlisted, and 
now, iyc;)4, he is a Cori)or;il in the "Mm- 
mets." ( )f the men left in hospital at 
Montauk, Private j. b". McTiernan 



Recriiits. 

The services of Sergeant J. J. Corliss 
in bringing the ranks of the "Emmets" 
up to the newly adopted standard 
shoulil lie treated under a special head- 
ing. We have already seen him com- 
ing or going back to Worcester from 
Camp Alger on the 8th day of June, 
thereby debarring himself from the ex- 
])eriences of the life in Cuba. It is the 
duty of a soldier to obey orders, and 
this a good one does uncomplainingly. 
Though he reached home the next day 
and was ready for work, he awaited 
orders till the 13th, when, in conformity 
with direction then received, he opened 
his station at the Armory, and before 10 



l()MI'A.\\ (i. 



283 




II. .\liirph: 



]).ni. had his thirty-two iiaim-s cin'ohcd 
The next day he took twenty more, and 
on Wednesday, the 15th. hi, nunilier 
ran up to eighty-seven. Thursthiy be- 
E^an tlie j^hysical examinations untlcr 
Dr. J. T, McGillicuddy, who passed 
l\vent\- nu'u out of thirty-seven exam- 
ined. At (I p.m. came orders to suspend 
oi)erations. and they were in suspense 
till Saturday, the 25th, when he was 
ordered to resume. Monday, the 27th, 
he took ten more names ; twenty-eight 
men were examined, of whom seventeen 
[lassed. There was no difficulty in se- 
curing men, and seemingly a regiment 
might have been raised. July ist. Lieu- 
tenant Healey of Clinton mustered into 
the U. S. service twenty men. and only 
failed to muster the other twelve on ac- 
count of lack of blank papers, and not 
till the 1 2th did the necessary documents 
arrive. It was lucky thai nothing im- 
minent hinged mi the cuniing of these 
same papers. Meanwhile, the industri- 
ous Sergeant put his recruits through a 
course of drill and marching, gradually 
inuring them to the duties of coming 
davs. 

On the 1 2th of July, the remaining 
twelve men were mustered in, and. hav- 



ing their uniforms. the\' wore ready for 
their departure. Thursd;i\'. the I4tli, 
witnessed the .going of the recruits. .\t 
7 p.m. the\ assembled at the .\rmiiry. 
and with music bv llncklex 's I )rum 
Cor])s. tlu-y marched to L"nioii .^tation. 
The men wlm were an.xious to hel]) 
swell the ranks of the 'T-".mmets'" were 
as follows, viz.: i ). 1. Kemiedy. James 
M. Carberry, Thomas l-'oley. .Maurice 
.\. Keane. Thomas F. Casey. John J. 
Martin, L. .\. O'Sullivan. James 1'. 
Power, Stephen F. Haggerty, Charles 
F. Rice, Patrick F. Shea, Thomas F. 
Kellaher, \\'illiani J. Riley, Thomas P.. 
Kelley, Patrick J. ITeming. John F. 
Carroll, Michael H. Conroy, Peter H. 
P.ennett, Walter .\llen. Cerald F. Mc- 
(lillicuddy, J. J. Larkin, W. M. Leon- 
ard. Daniel Cronin. M. I'. P>radshaw, 
James F. Carey. Thomas J. Kelleher, 
Richard 11. Powers, .\rthur L. De.sau- 
telle. 1". 11. Connelly, .\rioul .\. Shep- 
ardson, Joseph X. CofTee, Timothy J. 
Hurley. Though the "Fnimets" are 
suffering in Cuba, these are recruits for 
their ranks, and the public, appreciating 
their patriotism, turns out to give them 
a cheerful parting. Led by Lieutenant 
M. J. Healey of CHnton's Company K, 



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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




■WV; .\]<E CUMKAniC 



and Sergeant Corliss, tliev marcli 
through Main Street to Front Street 
and along the same to L'nion Station, 
everywhere cheered by the people, who 
are ever alive to anything military. A 
great throng fills the station itself, so 
that it is impossible for the men to 
board the car assigned to them, viz., the 
last on the Fitchburg train. It is en- 
tered finally only by boanling one of 
the forward cars, and by passing 
through the train, the ])ropcr (piarters 
are reached. Caterer Yeaw places on 
the car a hamper holding thirty-two 
boxes, supposed to contain cooked pro- 
visions for three meals, and. besides, he 
gives to each man twenty-one cents for 
the purchase of cofifee on the way. Fol- 
lowed by the plaudits of the nudtitudc. 
the train drew out at J-SS' leaving the 
people to disperse at their pleasure. 
Overcome by excitement, one lady, the 
sister of a recruit, faints, thus adding 
to the excitement. At Lincoln Square 
there is more applause, and here the 
drum corps alights and gives a final 
serenade. The men went away in 
charge of acting Sergeants Thomas 1'. 
Kelley and Maurice A. Keane. it being 
necessary for .Sergeant Corliss to re- 
main and finish up his papers. 

By way nf tlu' I'itchburg and West 
•Shore lines, the men went directly 
throu^-h to their destinati(jn, reaching 
1 )unn-I,oring early Friday night, every 
man in |ilace, the first party to arrive in- 



tact and on time. They were immedi- 
ately assigned to quarters and the rou- 
tine of camp life began in earnest. The 
Sergeant, who had given so much time 
togettingthis party of recruits together, 
did not join them till Saturday, July 30, 
at 7 p.m. August ist, he is made Quar- 
termaster-sergeant of the provisional 
company, composed of recruits for sev- 
eral of the Xinth's companies. Thurs- 
day, the 4th, the troops move away 
from Camp Alger, on account of the 
prevalence there of typhoid fever, to 
P)Urk's Station. After remaining one 
da}' at this point, a march is made to 
Hull Run, a place full of interest to the 
men who remember the Civil War. 
.Sunday, the /tli, the march was re- 
sumed for Manassas and camp is pitched 
at Bristow Station, a name full of Re- 
bellion memories. Relics of those 
troublous times are frequently found. 
.Monday and Tuesday they are at Chapel 
Springs, and Wednesday, the lOth, they 
go through to Thoroughfare Gap, still 
in historic regions, but continuous rains 
tend to (lani])en their interest. < )n ac- 
count of the high water in some of the 
creeks to l)e passed, the men stri]3 them- 
selves to avoid thorough soaking. The 
men who were there nearly forty years 
before had no time for such care. 

Here the men remained till the 27th, 
there being little variety save as they 
find Reheilion relics or get passes to 
near-by places of interest. The Com- 



KMMKT GUARDS 



COMPANY G. 



285 




pany is detailed for duty at the head- 
quarters of General Davis, and do not 
find their duties particularly arduous. 
There is a bit of excitement on account 
of the court-niartialinCT of Captain Dun- 
can of a Kansas recfinient through his 
alleged digging up of the body of a 
Confederate officer at Bull Run. On 
the 27th, trains are boarded for Middle- 
town, Penn., via Washington. When 
in the Capital, the soldiers were be- 
friended by the Red Cross Society with 
food and drink, and tiieir hearts arc 
quite won thereby. Sunday, the 28th, 
finds the men in their new station, near 
Middletown, or. as it is called. Camp 
Meade, at about 7 a.m.. and note is im- 
mediately made of the improved ap- 
pearance of the vicinity. As Sergeant 
Corliss expresses it, "folks live, not 
merely exist." However, the stay in 
this camp is so brief, it seems strange 
that the move should have been made 
at all. Each day has some sort of an 
order, to be countermanded on the next, 
with reference to the disposition of the 
soldiers. 

August 31st, came orders to report at 
Montauk and to prepare proper papers at 
once. These were in preparation Sep- 



tember 1st, 2d and 3d, through ex- 
tremely hot weather, the mercury re- 
cording above 100 degrees in the shade. 
( )n the last named date came direc- 
tions to repair to Camp Dalton in 
South 1-Vaniingham, which, to the wan- 
derers, had an almost home-like sound. 
They start on the 4th, going through 
jersey City and New York, taking 
from the latter place a train for home, 
\ ia Xew Haven, Springfield, through 
W orcester, reaching .'-^outh !'"raniing- 
liani at 4.30 a.m., .^I(lnday. the 5th of 
Se])tember. 

Here they found the 5th Regiment in 
camp and were hospitably received by 
the men, who helped the "Emmets" not 
only to refreshments, but towards find- 
ing their pro]ier lodgment, wheie for a 
time they were in nominal ciuarantine, 
there being an impression that they 
might have brought home with them 
contagious ailments. However, as no 
disease made its appearance, furlougiis 
were given to individuals, till finally all 
were sent to Worcester on tiie loth of 
September, the general furlough cover- 
ing sixty days. The home-coming was 
on -Saturday, and it came at a time 
when depression reigned on account of 
the manv deaths among- the Cuban sol- 



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WORCESTEK IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



(Hers, hence no demonstration greeted 
the advent of the young: men who had 
shown their wilUngness to do and to 
sufifer, if necessary. Of the thirty-two 
who had enUsted. twenty-four were in 
h'ne: one, Cofifee, had died, and others 
were in hospital. From this point, the 
story of the recruits coincides with that 
of the other members of the Company. 



dej)arturi 



After the return of so many men, the 
war being over, the city determined to 
give the new veterans a recention wor- 
thy of their services. The day set for 
the affair was the last day of October. 
In honor of the occasion, the schools 
stopped early and the Mayor requested 
that places of business be closed 
during the i)aradc. It seemed that 
the same spirit which sent the men 
away was still alive, if anything a lit- 
tle more intense than on those rainy 
May days, and surely the homeward 
coming ought to be brighter than the 
The Mir\i\ing men who 
nough for the march were 
in line, but there were heavy hearts 
among the onlookers, who saw rather 
the vacant ])laces than the men who 
marched. ( )nce more Colonel Wel- 
lington is Chief Marshal, and the right 
of the line is given to Battery B, the 
hearts of whose members were con- 
sumed with envy liecause of their en- 
forced remaining at home while these, 
their fellow members of the nulitia, 
were gaining renown and glory on the 
batlletiel.l. Then follow the older vet- 
iTans of l'o>t lo. C. A. K.. pn.uder 
than ever of llie bovs whom they had 
reare.l and ha.l sent int.. the pallnvay 
,,f dutv. Maj.ir l-airbank'. hea.ls th,' 
i)attali.'.ii. ami then come the eu\ 
Cuards, under Captain llarrelt. with 
his lieutenants, Tisdale an.l Hummer, 
ami sixtv men. Tlie •AXellingt. .ns' f..l- 
lovv, led'bv Captain Ilol.leii, with Lien- 
tenant Harrv T. C.ray an.l f..rty-f..nr 
men. Next in line are the ■■iMiimets, 
Captain Moynihan lea. ling, with both 
of his lieutenants. Hurley ami .Mc- 
Cann, and seventy-one men. Last 
of all marches the Light Infantry, com- 
manded by Captain Frank L. Allen, 
with Lieutenant Herbert H. Warren 



an.l fortv-seven men. With each corn- 
pan v were men representing other 
companies, but, as Worcester citizens, 
had borne a part in the contest. The 
march was not a long one, but it was 
sufficient to try the strength of the 
lately fever-stricken soldiers. At City 
Half, they were reviewed by, the Mayor 
and the' city government, and the 
sch.).)l children were there in force, 
just as thev were six months before. 
"( )n the C.)mmon, Battery B fired a sa- 
lute in h.in..r of the soldiers' return, 
and at 5 p.m. the parade was dismissed 
at the \Armory. "Couchee," the mas- 
cot, also was in line with his fellow vet- 
erans, and his blanket bears the words, 
■'I've been to Cuba. How about a pen- 
sion ?'" 

In the evening came the last scene, 
in the reception, when Mechanics Hall 
was filled to repletion with a vast ar- 
ray of soldiers and citizens, all intent 
.111' making the .lav and the h.nir mem- 
..rable. 'fhe galleries were filled with 
jie.iple. who liad paid fifty cents apiece 
f.ir the iirivilege of seeing the veterans 
served and to'hear the speeches. The 
numbers present were so much greater 
than expected that the city gov- 
ernment ha.l to retire with, nit a part 




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in the program nu'. In the confusion 
incident to the seating, the "linnnels" 
were left outside on the stairs, and 
were not present when grace was 
said by Dr. A. '/.. Lourad. Charles H. 
Pinkhain, that \ctcran chairman of 
reception committees, efificiently sup- 
ported by his aids, saw to the proper 
placing of the guests, and then fol- 
lowed the repast. \\'hen the feast was 
over, as toastmaster. Colonel Fred. W, 
Wellington took charge and happily 
introduced his several speakers. All 
rose equal to the occasion, and their 
oratory was enthusiasticall}' received. 
The speakers, in order, were Mayor 
R. B. Dodge, Jr., Congressman Joseph 
H. Walker, the Hon. Alfred S. Pinker- 
ton, the Rev. D. F. McGillicuddy, Col- 
onel W. S. B. Hopkins and William H. 
Bartlett, commanding the department 
of ]\Iassachusetts, G. A. R. In con- 
clusion, all arose while the Rev. Fr. 
McGillicuddy repeated the prayer for 
the dead, ending with. -Rcquicscant in 
pace." 

For the "Fmmets" there is yet some- 
thing to be done, for they must 
serve their tour of duty at the Armory. 
Accordingly they report on Sunday, 
Nov. 6th, at lo a.m. and proceed to 
set their ciuarlers in order. Their meals 




are to be ser\ed hy t'aterer ^'eaw in 
the ban(|uel hall, and the work l)ef<jre 
them will not he very arduous. Not 
all are here, for, aside from those in 
their graves, there are many who can- 
not respond on account of illness. Ow- 
ing to the recruiting to the ma.ximum 
number, there had been io6 men in the 
Company. Of this number, eighty en- 
listed men and three ofHcers are pres- 
ent. Also George Corbin puts in an ap- 
pearance and dines with his old friends. 
The duties of these twenty days are 
not much like those of the Cuban cam- 
paign, nor do rations, served by Ca- 
terer Veaw, resemble those given by 
Uncle Sam on the Island. So far as 
mere work is concerned, each lad could 
sing with Watts — 

■ .\Iy willing soul would stay 

In such a frame as this. 
.•\n(l sit and sing itself away. 
To everlasting bliss." 

The officers and their clerks had be- 
fore them the preparation of their mus- 
ter-out rolls, and as the thirty-two 
recruits had iieen [jretty well scattered 
around the country, it was something 
to get together all the threads in the 
skein. With very few rifts in tiieir lute, 
the totir continued till the 26th day 
of .\'o\emher. when they were mus- 
tered (jut of the U. S. service and paid 
off at the Armory. Including twenty- 
eight recruits, there were ninety-four 
men to rejoice at the offices of Lieu- 
tenant D. W. Kitchner of the 2d U. 
S. Artillery and Major M. R. Dyon, 
]iay masters in the regidar army. Some 
who were too ill to be present or were 
,il)sent for any reason, received their 
|>ay and discharge from Washington. 
\t 10.45 a.m. the task was done and 
ilie regular officers at once departed 
i-r r.oston. 

Immediately following the muster- 
otit, there was a meeting of the veter- 
ans, wiiich Captain Moynihati, with 
Lieutenants Hurley and McCann, ad- 
dressed, speaking in general terms of 
the character of the services of the men 
and of the conduct that should be 
theirs in following years. Thanks were 
given all the organizations and indi- 
viduals that had contributed to the 
comfort and happiness of the men, and 



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the meeting closed with three rousing 
cheers for the Worcester press. Cater- 
er Yeaw served for the veterans a 
turkev (Hnner, u]> tn his well-known 
standard. Tin- men themselves made 
up a liberal purse for ( ieorge J. Corbin, 
the persisteiU lad who would go with 
them through the Cuban campaign 
and who never flinched any trial. 
"Couchee" continued to be the Com- 
pany's faviirite till his death, a long 
life, considering the vicissitudes 
through which he had passed. For 
several years the city remitted the an- 
nual ta-x ill reci Ignition of his merit. 



J. 11. o'Callaghan. 

His stuffed figure, glass encased, is one 
of the most highly prized souvenirs 
in the "Emmets' " quarters.* 

.\ii<l here the cha])ter ends, though 
there are many items that might be 
introduced of subseciuent service in the 
regular army of men whose experience, 
severe as it was, had only intensified 
their liking for a military career, and 
of the larger array of men who, return- 
ing to the paths of peace, demonstrated 
the truth of Whittier's words when he 



'Peace hath liigher tests of manhood 
than battles ever knew." 



1\ MEMORL^M, COMPANY G. 



The list of "Emmets" dead is an ex- 
tended oiu-. The men who had been so 
active and vigilant in the ])repara- 
tory da_\s were not imper\ious to the 
attacks of fe\er. and thus some of tlu 
verv strongest yielded. Their graves 
in \\'orcester are objects of tenderest 
regard to their many comrades and 
friemls, but the bo(bes beneath the sea 
recei\e no .Memorial I 'ay tributes. 
There, imU-ttered but not unsung, they 
await the day when the lu;i\ens shall 
be rolled together as a scroll and the 
great waters shall give u]i their dead. 
liach succeeding year adds to the in- 
terest which the public has for the men 
who so willingly devoted themselves 



to a cause which they deemed just and 
worth the risk that they assumed. 

Idenry Sullivan. — Till the camp was 
saddened b\- the annonncemeiit of Pri- 
vate Sullivan's death, the men of the 
Ninth had begun to think they led 
charmed lives and that they were to 
be exempt from the penalties paid by 
other bodies ; but they were speedily 
undeceived, and before the tale was 



*" Couchee," on acconnt of his age and con- 
se(|iient infirmities, was mercifully chloroformed 
by his friends, Horan and O'Keefe, April ii, 
iQOi. The taxidermy work was done by E. R. 
Grossman. Perhaps it were better to state 
that the dog-ofticer "failed to see" the mascot 
than that the city forgave his tax. 



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289 




" --•. 1^ 

told the mortality record of the Ninth 
exceeded that of the other Massachu- 
setts regiments. Sullivan was born in 
\\'inchendon. Mass., Oct. 24, 1872. his 
parents being Henry and Dora S. The 
familv early removed to Gardner, so 
that his school days were spent in the 
latter town. Removing to Worcester, 
he learned the business of mattress 
making, and was working for J. J. 
Griffin, Shrewsbury Street, when the 
war Ijegan. October 2, 1895, fie was 



married to Miss Mary .Moynihan. who.' 
with her widowed mother, survives. 
The particulars of his death. July 23. 
have Ijeen given in the narrative of the 
Company. He sleeps now in St. John's 
Cemetery, his body having been re- 
turned later in the year. As one of the 
regimental postmen, his face and fig- 
ure were familiar to all tlie members 
of the Ninth. His aged father is still 
living, but his mother is dead. .\ sis- 
ter is the wife of his comrade. John 



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291 



r.arkin. ( )n its return to this countn-. 
the body was buried in St. John's Cem- 
etery. 

George W'ashiii^tim I'.rosuan. who 
died at Egmont Key. Florida, August 
20, was the second member of the Com- 
pany to die. He was a native of 
New York City, a son of John and 
Bridget (Leonard) Brosnan. The date 
of his birth was Nov. 6th, 1S77. His 
school days were spent ])rinci[)ally in 
SaN'brook. Conn. Later, coming to 
Worcester, he undertook the printer's 
trade and was emijloved as a pressman 
on the Evening Post of \\'orcester 
when he enlisted. As a soldier he was 
conspicuous for his alertness and faith- 
fulness, qualities which secured for 
jiim the position of mail-carrier for the 
regiment. The death of no man in the 
Company was more regretted than 
his. When in Camp Alger, he suf- 
fered from an attack of measles, and 
though he accompanied his regiment 
to Cuba, he had not altogether reco\- 
ered. Earlv in August he was sent 
back to the States. His father was a 
soldier in the British army and served 
in India. Besides his parents, he left 
a si-s'ter, Elizabeth, already mentioned 
in this story. The remains of tlu' young 
soldier at last found rest in St. }ohr. s 
Cemetery. 

Corporal John Daniel McSweeney. — 
^^'hen the "Emmets" went from Camii 
.\lger, thev left in charge of the tents 
thev had occupied Corporal ^Ic- 
Sweeney, who was to take charge of 
them in behalf of the recruits expected 
from Worcester. Here he was taken 
sick with typhoid fever, and wdien Ser- 
geant Corliss came down lu' found the 
young officer delirious and \ ery much 
needing medical attention. l'"or this 
purpose, he was sent to the hospital at 
Fort McA'er, and here he remained, his 
disease becoming finally ty])lioid pneu- 
monia, from which h; died, August 21. 
Just before his passing, though he had 
long been unconscious, his young wife 
arrived with their baby, hoping to 
glailden his eyes with a sight of the 
infant, named for him and the camp. 
John Alger, but there was no recog- 
nition in his dying sight. With his 



h;m(l elas|)ed in that of his wife, whom 
he had wediled only the Thanksgiving 
before, he recei\ed his final muster- 
out. He was born in County Kerry, 
Ireland, Feb. 2~. 1874. the son of Dan- 
iel and Elizabeth (Sullivan) Mc- 
Sweeney. and they are still living in 
the old country. At the age of eight- 
een, in company with an aunt, he came 
to .\merica. stopping first in New 
\'ork city. He very soon came to 
Worcester, and for five years had been 
a member of the "Emmets." His voca- 
tion was that of meat cutting, being 
employed by Fred M. Clark, on Foster 
Street. Hojiing to secure an ajjpoint- 
ment on the police force of the city, he 
had been a pupil in the Shrewsbury 
Street evening school during the win- 
ter. His body. Ijeing the first soldier's 
remains to be brought home, it re- 
cei\ed all the attention and honor that 
friends and citizens could bestow. .-K 
\ast arra\ of people viewed the body 
as it la\ in its casket, at ^/ Eastern 
Avenue, and on the 24th it was buried 
with military honors from St. .\nne's 
Church. The burial was in St. John's 
Cemcterv. His widow, nee Nellie J. 
Sullivan', and the son. John .-\lger Mc- 
Sweeney. now reside on Cage Street. 
I'-dward l-rancis Sullivan. — NcH till 
the l'om|)any was on its way home did 
death again in\ade the r;inks of the 




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WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



■"Emmets." As already stated, Sullivan 
had been one (if tiie strongest men 
in tlie ret^'-iment, seemingly immune to 
the ailments whieli had so weakened 
his comrades, but his turn came when 
he went aboard the Allegheny. "What 
might have been" has been the refrain 
in many a recital of the sad incident 
on that vessel when the delirious sol- 
dier leaped to his watery grave.* Had 
there been greater care given to his 
"heat oppressed brain," very likely he 
might have come home with his fel- 
lows. As it is, there is nothing left 
but his obituary, which follows : He 
was born in Shrewsbury, Aug. 29, 1874, 
his parents being Patrick and Joanna 
(Nagle) Sullivan. To him was im- 
parted some of the physical vigor 
which enabled his father for years to 
walk daily from and to that hill town, 
that he might earn his stipend at the 
Quinsigamond wire mills. The son 
had his schooling on Shrewsbury and 
Grafton streets, in this city. He grew 
to be a stationary engineer, and was 
thus employed when the call came for 
volunteers. For several years his home 
had been with his aunt, Mrs. Margaret 
Sullivan, Xo. 14 (jage Street, and by 
whom his untimeU- deatli is still 
mourned. His father is li\ing in 
Holden. 

Charles Francis McMann.— When 
the war call came there was visiting in 
\Vorcester a young man from V'er- 
mont. He had come here to see his 
younger sister, and though almost 
twenty-one years old it was onlv tlie 
second meeting in their recollection, 
iloth the \oung people were children 
of Michael and Mary (Reynolds) ( iaf- 
ney. who died when Charles was a lit- 
tle more than thre.- years old. There 
were four other chilclreii, all of whom 
were ilispersed in the great niisf. .rtnne 
which had come u|)on them. Charles 
was .-idopted l>y Thomas .McM;inn. of 
I'^-ast h'airtielil, \erniont, thongh the 
lad's birthi)lace was I ■ndeihill in that 
Slate. The sister, .\gnes. was ado[)ted 
by John M. Cunningham, later of Wor- 
cester. Thus they were reared a long 

*Sec page -'/.!. 



ways from each other. Charles had the 
benefit of \ermont schools, graduat- 
ing in '97 at IJrigham .-Vcademv. 
I'.akersfield, an all-round athlete. Fully 
six feet in height, weighing 180 pounds, 
the examining .surgeon said he was 
the best man he had ever seen. He 
was a star football player and was to 
enter the University of Vermont in the 
fall of 1898. It was when he gradu- 
ated from the .\cademy that his sister 
first met him after infancy. Having 
taught school during the winter of 
1 897- "98, he had come down to Wor- 
cester to repay the visit and to 
strengthen the ties so recently made. 
The call to war, however, |)roved 
str(jnger than that of college, and he 
was one of the gallant boys who 
marched away with the "Emmets,' 
regularly doing his duty till laid low 
by fever, from which he died, August 
30, when on his \va\- home in the Alle- 
gheny, an<l. it will he remembered, the 
\'essel was turned back that his body 
might rest beneath the dee]! waters. 

Alichael Joseph Healey. — The third of 
the "Emmets" to receive ocean burial. 
Ide died just as the vessel was nearing 
the long-desired shores. Dying on the 
31st of August, there was only a brief 
inter\al between his death and the 
Committing of his body to the waves. 
He was born in Castle Island, County 
Kerry. Ireland, in 1875, hence was only 
twenty-three years old when he died. 
His father, Edward, is still living in 
the old home. In this coimtry he is 
survixed by several sisters and broth- 
ers, lie came to Xew York city when 
sixteen years old and worked there for 
;i while, coming to ^^'orcester after 
about two years. Here he worked as 
;i moulder and, at the time of his en- 
listment, was employed at E. B. 
I'ierce's foundry. His home was with 
his sister, Mrs. P. F. Lawler, on .'sham- 
rock Street, and during his last winter 
he had been a pupil in the Shrewsbury 
Street evening school, under the care 
of that \-eteran teacher. William T- 
I-allon. 

Joseph M. CotTee. — Of this man. who 
was a recruit to the Company, there are 
verv few data extant. It would 



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293 



appear thai he was horn in New Ha- 
\cn, Conn., apparently of Irish parent- 
age, and that he had worked in Wor- 
cester for several years before his en- 
listment. His family affiliation, how- 
ever, seemed to lay hold on New Brit- 
ain, Conn., for there his I)ody was 
taken for burial. He boarded on Thom- 
as Street for some time, and, on hav- 
ino' his life insured, he had the pol- 
icy' made payable to his boardincf mis- 
tress rather than to his immediate rel- 
atives. Indeed, it is claimed after his 
death, a brother-in-law came to Wor- 
cester endeavoring to secure the re- 
sults of the insurance, l)Ut did not snc- 



Corporal John Francis Koran was 
horn in .\bbeyfeale, Count)' Limerick, 
Ireland, son of Michael and Catherine 
(Wright) Horan, who are still living 
in the old home. He came to America 
in 1880, and was a brother of First Ser- 
geant i\l. J. Horan. He never attended 
any of the schools in this country. He 
was a single man, and by trade was a 
mason, an occupation which was 
shared by his three brothers. He had 
been a foreman in the employ of Con- 
tractor Henry Mellen for a number of 
vears : he was prominent in the I'.rick- 
layers" Cnion and had represented his 
local hodv as a delegate in Chicago and 




"MoNI AlK' \' 

ceed. Coft'ee \vas employed as a wire 
goods maker at the time Sergeant Cor- 
liss returned home for recruits, and he 
became one of those who were to raise 
the Company to the maximum. Re- 
turning -with the Sergeant, when the 
new men went down to Camp Alger, 
he partook of the experience of the re- 
cruits, going with them to Camp 
Meade in Pennsylvania, where, at- 
tacked by typhoid fever, he died Sept. 
5. just after the return of the "Em- 
mets" to \\'orcester. At the expense 
of the Commonwealth, assisted by the 
honorarv corps of the "Emmets," the 
body of' Private Coffee was carried to 
New Britain for burial, and it lies now 
in St. Mary's Cemetery. 



I)k. .M. F. Fallon. 

iii.rxi i-:fus. 
f'eoria. He was also a meml)er of 
the A. ( ). H., everywhere conspicuous 
for his readiness and faithfulness. He 
was one of the oldest and most faithful 
members of the "Emmets." He had 
belonged more than ten years, joining 
about the time the Company went into 
the militia. He had. on a previous en- 
listment, worked himself up to the first 
sergeanoy. On going in again, he 
had given the same care and interest 
as of old. He had a hard experience in 
Cuba, going to the hospital there, and 
the trip home on the .\llegheny was 
anything hut helpful. .Vt Montauk he 
failed till death came to his release, 
Sept. 9. though the announcement of 
his departure was a surprise to his im- 



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WORCESTER IN THE Sl'AMSH WAR. 



mediate friends. His Jiddy is buried 
in .St. John's Cemetery. 

John Francis Keegan was a Wor- 
cester boy, born in this city Nov. 2, 
1872, son of John and Mary (O'Con- 
nor) Kee<fan. His father, a veteran of 
the Ci\'il War, having served in tlie 
na\y. is a member of Post 10, and 
resides on Water Street. As a school 
boy, he attended the institutions on 
Asli and Ledge streets, in the lattei 
place being under the care of Master 
E. E. Thompson. He left school after 
com])leting the ninth grade. His father 
was a moulder l)y trade and the boy 
took uj) the same occupation, and 
Worked with the father in Colvin's 
foundry on Assonet .Street. He was an 
active member in Father Mathew's 
Tem]3erance Society and, in the best 
days of the St. John's Cadets, he was 
one of the most acti\-e and interested 
members. .Xaturally, when the call to 
arms came he was ready to respond, 
and. with the other boys, he marched 
awaw His brother, Thomas, also en- 
list(.'(i. going into the 2d V. S. Artillery, 
being one of the first recruits for 
the regular army sent away from 
the citw As a soldier, in camp and 
field, Ik- (lid his duty uncomplainingly, 
and wrote cheerful letters to his Wor- 
cester home. Throughout the Cuban 
cami)aign he was alert and well, but he 
succumbed to the rigors of the trans- 
port and C'am]) Wikoff. .Vt tlie last 
moment, his father went down to the 
cam]), oidy to reeeixe the dead bodv 
of his son. In- having died on the gth 
of September, of txphoid pneumonia. 
Ilotli Honm and Keegan were buried 
from Si. John's e'hurch on the same 
day. the 13th, Keegan at <) o'clock and 
Horan at 10, and the bodies of both 
resi in St. John's Cemetery. 

James h'rancis McTiernan. — Septem- 
ber's death record for the "Emmets" 
was a heavy one. since no less than 
live of the men jjassed on between the 
5th and the 25th of the month, and all 
of them, except Coffee, at Montauk. 
The fourth in September's list, the 
i.Sth. was .McTiernan, a .\'oung man of 
Worcester birth, the son of James and 
Margaret ( AlcDermott) .McTiernan, 



of whom the father survi\es. As a 
school bo_\' he went with his fellows 
to Ledge Street, and was another pupil 
of Master Thompson to don the blue 
and follow the flag. At the time of his 
enlistment, he was a mason's appren- 
tice. When his bofly was brought back 
to Worcester, the friends of the 
family had an opportunity to view the 
same at the home on Coral Street. 
whence it was taken to St. Stephen's 
for the last rites of the church, ac- 
companied by a representation of "Em- 
mets," active and honorarv. The 
eulogy of the Rev. D. F. McGillicuddy 
was specially touching and impressive. 
( )\-er the grax'e, three volleys were 
fired in honor of the departed soldier, 
and, after "taps" by the bugler, the 
friends turned homeward, leaving in 
his grave one more memorial of man's 
sacrifice for man. 

John James Creaven. — The eleventh 
death in the Company was that of 
Crea\'en, whose earthly jotirnev' ended 
at Montauk on the 25th. The soldier 
was a native of Ireland and was about 
thirty years of age. His parents were 
John and h'llen (King), of whom the 
mother is yet living in Ireland. 
In 1885 Crea\en came to this countr}'. 
landing in Portland, .Me., but he soon 
found his way to Worcester, where he 
entered the employ of Washburn & 
Moen as wire-drawer, and, as such, 
continued till he went to Camp Dewey. 
Of his inunediate family only his 
brother Patrick li\-e(l in this cit-\', 
though a Cousin, Patrick Feenev. lived 
on Millbury Street, from whose home 
the burial was had. Early after his 
Coming to Worcester he associated 
himself with several of the Irish Catho- 
lic organizations, and was prominent 
in the .\. ( ). If. and the Catholic Asso- 
ciates. He had been a mendier of the 
"Emmets" three years, and was one of 
the first to indicate his readiness to 
volunteer for the campaign. His army 
life was all right till about three weeks 
before the leaving of Cuba, when he 
was stricken with malaria and had to 
go to the hosi)ital. Recovering some- 
what, he boarded the .Mlegheny with 
his comrades, but on reaching Mon- 



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tank lie a.L;ain wt-nl to tin- ImsiHlal, 
which he (lid nol leaxe in hfe. ( )ver 
liis remains impressive services were 
held in St. John's Church, the words of 
the Rev. Mgr. (iriffin hein_<T particular- 
ly fittintj. -At. St. John's Cemetery the 
last chapter in this life history was had 
with the flag, volleys of musketry and 
"taps" in the presence of many hun- 
dreds of interested spectators. 

John Edward Casev. — Thnu.!:,di lie 
was the first member of the Conii)any to 
receive his discharge. Private Casey did 
not come home to become a liealthv. 



vicissitudes of tiie Cuban service wore 
upon him so much that his friends 
solicited and secured for him a dis- 
charge, thinking him better em])loyed at 
home than in a foreign land. Tiie burial, 
in St. John's Cemetery, was from the 
Church of the Sacred Heart, Wednes- 
day, Jan. 3d, 1900. at nine o'clock a.m. 
Over the grave his comrades fired three 
volleys and the bugles sounded "taps." 

\\'alter Allen. — One of the recruits 
secured by Sergeant Corliss was a 
young wire-worker from South Wor- 
cester, though in his earlier davs he had 




Dr. Jamks E. McGourty, 
.\5St. SurK., 9th M. y. M. 

noTii 



■MdNI ATK" 



Dr. Peter O. She*. 
I. ate .\sst. Surg., 9lh .M. 
ll.r.NrlCICRS. 



robust worker, for tlie hardslii])s of 
the campaign wore upon him till, bereft 
of his reason, he was taken to the Lu- 
natic Hospital, where, Dec. 31, 1899, he 
died. He was born in County Kerry, 
Ireland, Xov. 18, 1866, the son of 
Michael and Catherine (Brosnihan) 
Casev. r>v occupation he was a team- 
ster, but he threw up his employment 
that he might go with younger men to 
the war, though in doing so he left six 
children and their mother, who before 
her marriage was Catherine Gleeson. 
He was the first and only man hit by a 
hostile missile in the company, and the 



worked in the carpet mills, lor wiiich 
this locality is noted. He was a native 
of England, born in Twerton-on-.\von. 
near Rath, October 28, 1877. How- 
ever, onh his earliest boyhood was 
spent there, for in 1881 he came to 
.America, where the father had already 
come with an older brother. He was 
the voungest child of (ieorge and Em- 
ma (Schofield) Allen, the last of a nu- 
merous group of sons and only one 
daughter, Mrs. Edward Lever of South- 
gate Street. .After a residence in 
Thompsonville, Conn., the family came 
to Worcester, and Walter's schooling 



296 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



was had in Cambridge Street, principal- 
ly under the care of Miss Ellen M. Boy- 
den. He was employed at the Grove 
Street mills when the war fever struck 
him, and his experience in the "Em- 
mets" onh- served to increase its 
streni^th. After his discharge he worked 
for a short time in the Grove Street 
works, but after a few months re-enlisted 
in the gth V. S. Infantr\- and was with 
liis regiment when it went to Pekin, 
though before that he had had his expe- 
rience in the Philippines. He died of 
chronic dysentery Nov. 5. 1900, in Pekin, 
and his body was hrought liDuie for 
burial Mav 2()th, 1901. W^ith funeral 
services from Ho]5e Church, it was 
buried in Hope Cemetery. It was a 
sad accompaniment of his body's return 
that, on the very day of its coming, his 
mother was stricken with paralysis, and 
from the stroke she never rallied. 

Peter H. P.ennett. — Another recruit 
who did not see Cuba, yet was willing to 
enlist for that luirpose, was Bennett, 
who, the son of Patrick and Elizabeth 
(Herald) Bennett, was born in Worces- 
ter, and here his life was spent, except 
for that portion passed in the armv. He 
died of consumption Jnne 24, 1902, and 
was buried in .St. John's Cemetery. By 
trade he was a metal polisher and was 
a member of the union of that occupa- 
tion. A sister, Susan, is Mrs. Theodore 
St. George of Brooks Station, town of 
Princeton. At his death he wns aged 
29 vears, G months and 26 days. 

David James Kennedy. — The third 
among the "Rnnnet" recruits to get his 
final muster-out was the subject of thi^ 
sketch. He was born in Hardwick, 
Mass., a son of David and Catherine 
(Cronin ) Kemu-iK'.and in ihat township 
passed his earlier days. In \Vorcester 
his employment was that of a shipper, 
and in that capacity he was with Clark, 
Sawver Cn. when In- enlisted. He, too. 
di<l not gel .'irmy enough in his brief 
ex]ierience of 1898, so like Allen he 
went into the 9th U. S. Infantry, enlist- 
ing Jan. 14, 1899, and there gained a 
wide knowledge of what real war is. In 
the Philippines he louglit in many 
battles and, when the war in China 
broke out, he accomjianied his regiment. 



At Tien Tsin, July 13, 1900, where his 
colonel was killed, he received a severe 
wound in the groin. Through conse- 
quent disability he was discharged Oct. 
22, 1900. His death was on July 2, 1903, 
and his body lies in St. John's Ceme- 
tery. A brother of the deceased soldier 
is Patrick Kennedy, foreman in O. B. 
Wood's printing establishment on Fos- 
ter Street. 

William H. :\Iurphy.— The latest 
"Emmet" to receive final muster-out 
was young Murphy, than whom there 
was no stronger, more athletic soldier 
when the Company marched away, but 
the seeds of disease were sown during 
the campaign, and, though he survived 
the return fully six years, it was only 
to fall at last. The record in Worces- 
ter's City Hall says that he died of tu- 
berculosis, but malaria, acquired in 
Cuba, was the provoking cause. On 
his return, he became a conductor on 
the street railway, and there continued 
till illness compelled him to go to Col- 
orado, where he remained something 
more than a year and a half. On his 
return, still ailing, he was unable to 
work, and finally went to Rutland for 
the benefits of its altitude and clear 
air: but it was in vain, for October 12, 
1904, he died at the Highland View 
House. He was born in Worcester, 
April 19, 1879, the son of John and 
Ellen (O'r.rien) Murphy. His school 
(lavs were spent at the Thomas Street 
building, supplemented by a course in 
a business college. About the time he 
had finished the latter, the Spanish 
War began, and an Irish boy, born on 
the anniversary of Lexington's great 
day, could do no less than enlist. His 
brother Frank also was a soldier, now 
serving a second term in the regulars. 
Our subject was a member of E. R. 
Shumway Camp, Spanish War \'eter- 
ans, and, with delegations from the 
Camp and from the "Emmets," mili- 
tarv honors were accorded his remains, 
which were liuried from St. Peter's 
Clun-eh, ( Jctober 14. in St. John's Cem- 
eterv. 

Timothy J. Aliern.— "The latest to 
die" has already been written of Wil- 
liam H. Murphy, but delay in publish- 
iniT the book admits <jf a rejietition of 



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297 



the expression, since March 9,1905, the 
first name on the roll of the "Emmets'" 
was starred. On that day the soldier 
who had warred against disease ever 
since his return from the service, 
passed over to rest on the other side 
of the river at the age of 31 }ears. i 
month and 3 days. His residoncr was 
at 33 Ward Street, where iiis widnw 
and two children, a boy and girl, arc 
left to lament the going of husband 
and father. He was born in Ireland, 



lUitterfui, County Cork, where his 
l)arents and two brothers survive him 
with three sisters in this country. He 
came to America in 1896, and was a 
machinist liy trade. The maiden name 
of his widow was llridget Dcvine. 
The funeral, from St. John's Church, 
Saturda)-, the nth, w'as attended by 
man\' of his comrades, and the body 
was buried in St. jnhn's Cemetery, 
where so nianv ol the "i''.uinu'ts" lie. 



AT PRESENT. 



The following list contains the 
names of all survivors of Company G, 
their present addresses and vocations 
as far as the same have been found. 
Unless otherwise stated, the State is 
Massachusetts, the place Worcester : 



Captain Jeremiah J. IMoynihan, police- 
man. 

First Lieutenant John F. Hiu-ley, 
Health Department. 

Second Lieutenant William E. Mc- 
Cann, clerk. 

Sergeant Michael J. Horan, mason. 

Sergeant John J. Corliss, druggist. 

Sergeant William F. Casey, plumber. 

Sergeant Patrick J. Moynihan. insur- 
ance, councilman. 

Sergeant Charles J. Degnan. mattress- 
maker. 

Sergeant ^lichael J. McCartin, con- 
ductor. 

Corporal Thomas F. Lavin, machinist. 

Corporal James F. King, wire-drawer. 

Corporal John T. Green, coremaker. 

Corporal Frank H. Doran, moulder. 

Musician Nicholas J. Skerrett, re- 
porter. 

Musician James A. G. Casey, moulder. 

Musician Peter F. Sullivan, ticket 
agent. 

Artificer Patrick J. Sullivan, fireman. 

Edward R. Barker, draughtsman. 

James M. Barrett, plumber. 

Michael C. Brophy, clerk. 

David J. Burke, shipper, Holyoke. 

Timothy J. Burns, U. S. .Vrmy. 

James F. Connolly, shoemaker. 

Charles S. Corcoran, engineer, St. 
John, N. B. 



Michael J. Delauey, insurance. 

Dennis J. Doyle, electrician. 

Frank P. Doyle, motorman. 

John Farrell, coachman. 

John J. Fitzgerald, letter-carrier. 

John E. Fitzpatrick, conductor, ^\'el- 

lesley Hills. 
Alichael J. Flynn, brewer. 
John E. Fogerty, moulder. 
Frank Forrest, U. S. Army. 
Daniel Gardner, machinist. 
Michael F. Garrett. hel]K'r. 
John J. Gilchrist, U. S. Army. 
William V. Gilmore, wireworker. 
John T. Green, coremaker. 
ilenry Griftin, barber. 
Alichael J. Grogan, driver. 
Michael J. Gully, brakeman. 
Edward 1'. Hackett, policeman. 
Michael L. Hoar, janitor. 
Frank E. Joyce, motorman. 
Charles E. Kenney, mason. 
John Larkin. motorman. 
lames F. Earner, steamfitter. 
Frank C. Leonard, moulder. 
John J. Loftus, mason. 
Edward H. Lyons, driver. 
James J. McGrath, moulder. 
Hugh NlcGuire, mason. 
Henr_\- J. Martin, machinist. 
Edward Murphy, driver, 
lohn F. Murphy, reporter, Chicago, 111. 
Timothy J. O'Brien, mason. 
John U. O'Callaghan, steamfitter. 
"Daniel W. O'Connor. U. S. .\rmy. 
Patrick J. O'Keefe. letter carrier. 
Anthiiny J. Prendergast, moulder. 
Patrick J. Prendivillc. steamfitter. 
Robert H. Rooney, moulder, X. J. 
Patrick J. Scully, clerk. 
Edward F. Steele, roofer. 



298 WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 

Icihii II. Swc-cncv. eleclrician. TlKunas I". Kellalu-r, stL-anifitter ; has 

Hcnrv 1'. Tracv. l:)arlier. ( linlnn. Ijcl-ii in U.S.A. 

Michael !•". I'.ra'dshaw. lahnrcr. Thdiiias J. Kelleher, policeman. 

James M. Carl)(.Ti-v, electrician. Thomas 1". Kelley, salesman. 

James F. Carcv, beltniaker. John J. Larkin. pressman. 

John H. Carroil, U.S.A. W illiam .M. Leonard, springmaker. 

Thomas F. Uasev. waiter. John J. Martin, motorman. 

Frank H. Connolly, mason: has been "Cerald F. AIc( iillicuddy, Iniffer. 

in U. S. Marines. Fanrence A. ( )'Sullivan. wood 
Michael 1 1. (onroy, machinist. worker. 

Daniel V.. (ronin, ]ilund)er, \"irginia. James F". Power, lithographer. 

Arthur F. Desautelle. codk. I'.oston. Richard H. Powers, teamster. 

Th<imas I'olev. plumber. Charles F. Rice, woodworker. 

Patrick 1. I'leming. U.S..\. W illiam J. Riley, clerk, Boston. 

Stei)lu-n l'\ llaggertv, Li.S..\. Arioul A. Sheiuirdson, wireworker, 
Tiniolln- 1. llurle\'. machinist. (linton. 

Maurice .V. Keane, lirewer. Patrick 1'. Shea, waiter. 

MrsTEK-i.\ Roll rn- Comi'.vxv <;, gTii Recimext of Fvfantkv, Massa- 
chusetts \'oi.r\TEERS, IX the Service of the Uxited St.vfes, for Two 
Years fro.m May ii, i8oS, cxless Sooxer Discharced, 

[ Tlic (l.ita, in i.rdiT. cuvlt rank, nanu". a.ije, birtliplace and occupatiim.] 

CAPTAix. James F. King-, t,i,, Montreal, Canada, 

Jeremiah J, Movnilian. 33. Kil'arney, j, ,,,„'' p Horan. 33, Limerick, Ire., 



Ire., i)olicc 



man. 



ma^on. 

FIRST i.iECTEXAXT. John T. Crceu, 23. Worcester, core- 

niaker. 
John F. Hurley, 37, Worcester, health y^^,^]^ IF Doran, 26, Worcester, moulder. 



mspector. 

SEcoxn LiEurEx.vxi' 



MUSICI.VX; 



dealt 

ARTIFICER 



William F. McCann, 42. Worcester, J^'^^s A. G. Casey, 24, Worcester, 

lather moulder. 

.\icliola> j. Skerrett, 21. \\ orcester, re- 

SERi-.EANTS. porter. 

ivr- , , , ,j „ T ■ -IT Peter F". Sullivan, 2", Kerrv, Ire., news- 

Michael J. Horan, 2J, Limerick, Ire., 1 l^- 

mason. 

John J. Corliss, 28, Woi-cester, con- 
tractor. 

William 1''. Casey, 2/. Worcester, P.atrick J. Sullivan. 31 , Kerry, Ire., fin 
plumber. man. 

Patrick I. Mo\nihan, ^2, Killarne\-, Ire., 

clerk. ■ ' ■ WACoxKR. 

Charle.-. J. iJegnan, 24, lulinburgli, Sc Jt- 
land, mattress-maker. 

Michael 1. .McCartin, 26, Lethrem, 
Ire.. I'lolishrr. 



John F. Casey, 31, Kerry, Ire., team- 
ster. M. ( ). July 14, i8y8. 



I'R1\'.\TES. 
CORPORALS. ,, .,,■ ^, T ,, ( ■ ,^1- 1,0 tin 

Ahern, I imothy ].. 24, Lork, ire., ma- 
Tohn 1). McSweency, 24, Kerry, Ire., chinist. 

teamster. Parker, lulward K., 21, Framingham, 

Thos. F. Lavin, 26, Worcester, spinner. draughtsman. 



EMMET C.rAKUS, COMPANY G. 



299 



Rarrc-tt. James M., 26, WorcesLcr. 
pluniljcr. 

Bro])hy, Michael C. 26, Killarney. Ire., 
teamster. 

Brosnan, deorge \\'., 20. Xew York, 
X. Y.. pressman. 

Burke, David J.. 23, ^Vorcester, team- 
ster. 

Burns, Timothy J., 23, W'orcesici, 
grocer. 

Connelly. James F., 34, Lowell, shoe- 
maker. 

Corcoran, Charles S., 20, Kings Co., 
Nova Scotia, engineer. 

Creaven, John J., 30, Galway, Ire., wire- 
worker. 

Delaney. Michael J., 21, Worcester, 
bookkeejier. 

Doyle, Dennis J., 24, Kerry, Ire., team- 
ster. 

Doyle, Frank P., 26, Kerry, Ire., mat- 
tress-makcr. 

Farrell. John. 24. Roscommon, Ire., 
moulder. 

Fitzgerald. John J.. 2t,. Worcester, 
plumber. 

Fitzpatrick, John F.. 21, Milfonl. pho- 
tographer. 

Flynn, Michael J., 24, Kerry, Ire., clerk. 

Fogerty, John E., 22, Holyoke, moulder. 

Forrest, JFrank, 25, Worcester, laborer. 

Gardner, Daniel, 26. Killarney, Ire., 
laborer. 

Garrett, Michael F.. 22. Waterford. Ire. 
steam-fitter. 

Gilchrist. John J,, 23, Worcester, laborer. 

Gilmore, William F., 26, Worcester, 
laborer. 

Griffin, Henry, 30, Limerick, Ire., ma- 
chinist. 

Grogan. Michael J., 28, \\'orcester. 
buffer. 

Gully, Michael J.. 24. Worcester, pol- 
isher. 

Ifackett, lulward F., 20. \\'orcester, 
painter, 

Healy, IMichael J., 24, Kerry, Ire., 
laborer. 

Hoar, Michael L., 31, Worcester, in- 
spector. 

Joyce. Frank E., 22, Worcester, motor- 
man. 
Keegan. John F., 25, Worcester, 
moulder. 



Kemiey, Charles E., 21, Worcester, 
mason. 

Larkin. John. 2y. lMlchl)urg, stage man- 
ager. 

Lariur. James 1-"., 21, Worcester, steam- 
tit ler. 

Leon;ird, Frank C, 23, Leicester, 
moulder. 

Loflus. John J,. 2^. Mayo. Ire., wire- 
worker. 

Lyons, ICdward IL, 21. 'riii|)erary. Ire., 
plumber. 

McGrath, James J.. 23, Waterford. Ire.. 
machinist, 

Mc( iuire. Hugh, 26. Laterim, Ire., 
masi 111. 

AlcAlaiiii. Charles. 21, rnderhill. \'t,, 
.<chool teacher. 

McTiernan, James F., 22, \\'orcesler, 
lamp-lighter. 

Martin, Henry J., 28, Worcester, pol- 
isher, 

.\hirpliy, I'Mward F.. 20. Spencer, shoe- 
cutler. 

Murphy. John F,. 22. Worcester, re- 
porter. 

Murphy, William IL, 20. Worcester, 
teamster. 

O'Brien. Timothy J., m. Worcester, 
wood-worker. 

O'Callaghan. John II. . 3O, Troy, X, Y., 
steamfitter. 

O'Connor, Daniel W., 23. Grafton, 
wire-worker. 

O'Keefe. Patrick J.. 33. Grafton, letter 
carrier. 

Prendergast. -Anthony T,. 2^,. Mayo. Ire., 
moulder. 

Prendiville. Patrick J., 25, Palmer, 
steamfitter. 

Rooney, Robert H.. 2^^. Worcester, 
moulder. 

Scully. Patrick J.. 2^. Worcester, drug- 
gist. 

Steele, Edward F., 23, Worcester, roofe . 

Sullivan, Edward F., 24, Shrewsbury, 
thread-winder. 

Sullivan, Henry, 25, Winchendon. ma:- 
tress-maker. 

Sullivan, Peter F. 

Sweeney, John H., 20, Worcester, con- 
ductor. 

Tracy, Henry P., 26. Boylston. barber. 



300 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



mg: 



Recruits to Company "G" who were Haggerty. Stephen F., 20, Worcester, 
mustered in Julv ist and 12th, 1898, for waiter. 

three years, etc.,' and were mustered ou;; Hurley, Timothy J., 24, Worcester, 
with the Company in November follow- teamster. 

Keane, Maurice A., 21, Kerry, Ire., 

laborer. 
Kellev. Thos. B.. 20, Worcester, clerk. 
Kellaher, Thomas F., 21. Worcester, 

spoke-maker. 
Kelleher. Thomas J., 28. Kerry. Ire., 

painter. 
Kennedy, David J., 33, Ilardwick, ship- 
ping clerk. 
Larkin, John J., 23, Worcester, armorer. 
Leonard. \\'iriiani .M., 25. Worcester, 

currier. 
IMcGillicuddy. Gerald F., 23, Worcester, 
skate-maker. 



Allen, Walter, 21, Thompsonville, Conn., 
wire-worker. 

Bennett, Peter H., 24, Worcester, buffer. 

Bradshaw, Michael I'\, 26, Worcester, 
machinist. 

Carberry. James .M., 25, Worcester, ma- 
chinist. 

Carey, James F., 21, Waterford, Ire., 
belt-maker. , 

Carroll, John H., 21, Worcester, laborer, 

Casey. Thomas F., 23, Ashton, R. I., 

barber. Martin, Tohn J., 28, Paxton, laborer. 

Coffey. Joseph :\1., 24, New Haven, Q'Sullivan, Laurence A., 25, Worcester, 
Conn,, japanner. pj^no polisher. 

Connolly, Frank H., 38, Lowell, stone- power, James F., 19, Worcester, case 
mason, hardener. 

Conroy, Michael H., 22, Worcester, ma- Powers, Richard H., 27, Detroit, Mich., 
chinist. cook. 

Cronin. Daniel E., 24, Worcester, Rice, Charles F., 2},, Worcester, wood- 
plumber, worker. 

Desautelle, Arthur L,, 32, St. John, Riley, William J., 25, Worcester, book- 
Canada, cook. keeper. 

Fleming. Patrick J., 21, Waterford, Ire., Shea, Patrick P., 21, Kcrrv, Ire., buffer, 
spinner. Shepardson, Arioul A., 25, Worcester. 

Foley, Thomas, 2^, W(ircester, plumber, mechanic. 



KMMICT GUARDS, CO.MI'AXV C. 



301 



THE EMMET H( ).\( )RARIES. 



Almost coincident with the sound of 
war's alarms, came the increased activ- 
ity of the band of men who for years 
had acted as friends in need of the cit- 
izen soldiers. They had aided in the 
payment of extra bills when necessary, 
they had helped out on anniversary 
and public occasions, but now the time 
was approaching when they must 
stand in the breaches developed bv the 
departure of the active company for 
the front. 

The honorary records for this pe- 
riod, in the handwriting of the Sec- 
retary, William J. Tansey, give a 
graphic picture of the disposition of 
these friends of the soldier when he 
was called to leave his home and re- 
sponsibilities. The first date in the 
volume is that of March 31, when at 
9 p.m., apparently in the Armory, the 
assembly was called to order by 
Captain ]\Ioynihan : John J. Riordan 
was made temporary chairman, and 
W'illiam J. Tansey secretary pro tem. 
Later the same officers were made 
permanent with the addition of Dr. 
George McAleer, vice-president: Lieu- 
tenant James Early, treasurer. Di- 
rectors were also appointed in the per- 
sons of Richard O'Flynn, J. F. Fitz- 
gerald, Paul Henry. J. Frank Ouinn, 
and Philip J. O'Connell. An assess- 
ment of five dollars on each member 
gave an air of earnestness to the occa- 
sion. 

The next meeting was on the eve of 
departure, viz.. May 3d, when it was 
voted that the honoraries should turn 
out to do escort duty on the Com- 
pany's going to Framingham, the next 
day. A tribute to the services of Col. 
F. W. Wellington, in the addition 
of the "Emmets" to the State militia, 
was paid in the proposition that he 
should be the chief marshal in the 
parade. This proposition on the part 
of Lieutenant Early met the the ap- 
proval of all. Captain Moynihan was 
received and spoke on the coming 
ordeal, as also did Lieutenant Hurley. 



Jeremiah Murplty told of the Civil 
War days and of the probable demands 
to be made on the health and energy 
of the men. 

Later in the evening. Colonel \\'el- 
lington came in and spoke of the in- 
terest he had ever had in the "Em- 
mets." On the motion of Mr. David 
Goggin a Relief Committee to look 
out for the families of departing sol- 
diers was appointed, consisting of M. 
B. Lamb. David Goggin, J. H. Mur- 
phy, W. H. Toner and W. J. Tansey. 
The president of the honoraries, Mr. 
Riordan, was added as chairman ex- 
officio of the committee. 

The honoraries did escort duty as 
contemplated, but they did not meet 
again till the very last morning in the 
month, when they came together in 
the council cliamber of the City Hall, 
their mission to determine in what 
manner the passage of the Company 
through the city should be observed, 
and it was voted to give the boys 
money rather than a lunch. On the 
motion of Dr. George Mc.Meer, sec- 
onded by Mr. Richard Healy, it was 
voted that a subscription ]ia])er be cir- 
culated then and tliere. with the result 
that S230 was raised at once, the list 
being headed by the name of Mr. 
Healy with the sum of one hundred 
dollars affixed ; nor did generosity end 
here, for, through the passing of a hat, 
twelve dollars was secured for the 
procuring of pipes and tobacco for the 
"boys." Then, beyond all this, the or- 
ganization assessed itself five dollars 
per cajMta for the good of the soldiers 
and their dependencies. 

Thenceforward the records of the 
honoraries are really those of the Re- 
lief Committee, which for the most 
jjart nun in the music store of Mr. ^L 
B. I^amb, and at frequent intervals. 
Anv one contributing five dollars or 
more to the relief fund was voted an 
honorary member of the corps. As a 
starter in the matter of giving, one 
hundred dollars was voted to the Vol- 



302 



WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 




\Vm. J.T.. 



■MOXTAl'K" 



unteer Aid Society; at the sanu- time, a 
vig'ilant eye was kept u]iiin the wants 
ami needs of the "Emmet" families, 
sucli action being taken on June i>^t. 
( )ine week from that date, contrihu- 
tions toward the fnnd amounted to 
$714, in whicii were nut included the 
loans of carriages, etc.. in the raising 
of the foregoing sum. thanks fur the 
same going to Mr. John I'. AIcDoniudl 
for his generosity in this direction. 
The records for several weeks were for 
the most part statements of relief af- 
forded to dififerent families. 

In |id\ the committee aicled in the 
sncces> of the famous lawn party 
gi\t-n l)y the l^adies' .\uxiliary, and in 
m,-in\ \\,-i\s contributed to the well- 
being of people who otherwise had 
siifTered. In .\ugust came the serxices 
of the corps in secm'ing |)roper ob- 
servance of soldiers' funerals, thence- 
forward to be entirely too frec|uent. 
The arrival of the "Emmets" at .Mon- 
tauk brought comparatively near the 
committee the chief cause of its exist- 



J. J. Riorhan. M. p.. Lamb. 

■TEE. "EM-MET" HOXORARIES. 

ence. and ne\'er for a moment was 
there an\' a1)atement of effort to help 
and forward their interests. Arrange- 
ments for the proper reception of the 
t"ompan\-, the disposal of territory for 
\dhmteer ph\-sicians and nurses, and 
nian\- other items were all considered 
and acted ui)on 1)>- this same commit- 
tee. The \'isit of the committee to 
.Montauk gave to it for war annals the 
appellation of the "Montauk Commit- 
tee." .September ist, Katharine John- 
son had volunteered to act as a nurse, 
and hers is the first name on the list. 

At subsecpient meetings there were 
conferinces with the physicians who 
had \dlunteered to help the soldiers on 
their arrival in Worcester, and the 
names of additional nurses were re- 
ceix'ed. Later there were votes to send 
floral tributes to the funerals of de- 
ceased soldiers and to designate rep- 
resentatives of the corps to attend in 
person. As time advanced, after the 
return of the men. meetings assumed 
rather the form of approving and paying 



EM MET CUAKUS, COMPANY G. 



303 




, W.M. J, Delaham V. 

VOLUNTEER riIV.SICIAN> 



AT MONTAUK. 



bills, which were numerous, for whose 
defrayal tliere always seemed to be 
enough. November 25 was nearing 
the end of the many assemblages of 
the committee. .\t this one Presi- 
dent Riordan stated that they had met 
once a week ever since their organiza- 
tion, and during the stay of the Com- 
pany at Montauk, every night, and 
that to the best of their ability they 
had discharged the duties lai<l upon 
them. At this time gratitude was ex- 
pressed to the many persons and or- 
ganizations that had contributed to 
the success of their work. In this list 
were included the names of Senator 
George F. Hoar, Rev. Father D. F. 



McGillicuddy, Colonel F. \V. Welling- 
ton, .Martin B. Russell, who went to 
Montauk to represent the committee, 
and finally to all who had in anv way 
contributed to the good work. Messrs. 
T. J. McAuliffe. J." J. Moynihan, J. J. 
Riordan and William J. Tansey were 
appointed a sub-committee to see 
about ])lacing in the .\rmory a tablet 
bearing the names of those who had 
died during the war, a consummation 
not as yet attained. The memorial 
ser\ices. held in St. John's Church, 
February 22(1, 1899, were under the 
auspices of the connnittec and were of 
a fitting character. The last meeting 
recorded in the annals bears date June 



304 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR, 



12, i<joo, and therein we learn that 
from all sources the honoraries had 
collected $1427.65, and that there was 
a balance remaining of $191.76, which 
sum it was voted to turn into the treas- 
ury of the Honorary Corps. The final 
act in this chapter was the reading of 
a highly eulogistic story of the ser- 
\ices to the cause of John J. Riordan, 
wild hail recently died. Xo one can 
tell liiiw much his ser\-ices during the 
trying period of the war may ha\'e con- 



Iriliuted to his untimely death. Dr. 
( ieorge McAlecr, the memorialist, ac- 
(|uitted himself most admirably, and 
ne\er had reader a better subject. As 
a singular appendix to the foregoing, 
the secretary of the committee, Wil- 
liam J. Tansey, has also joined the 
great majority, and, with the "Em- 
mets" beyond, contemplates the lives 
and deeds of those still this side of the 
di\'ide. 



LADIES' AUXILIARY TO THE EMMET GUARDS. 



True t(j their womanly natures, the 
lady friends of the "Emmets" early 
united in an effort to make happier the 
lives of the men themselves, and, where 
necessar_\-, the homes that they had 
left. \\'hile many of the auxiliary were 
related to the soldiers, there were 
others whose sole interest in the cause 
arose from their innate desire to work 
for the cause of God and humanity. 
The work that these young women ac- 
complished in the few months of their 
organization was remarkable, and 
they fully merited the gratitude which 
every soldier felt towards them. From 
the records of the secretary, it is pos- 
sible to glean certain interesting facts 
concerning their w-ork in this summer 
of anxiety and grief. 

Starting in June. 1S9S, it is stated 
that the primary object of the organi- 
zation was to make comfort bags and 
abdominal bands for the men at the 
front, furnishings for the hospital 
shi]>s and necessities for sick and 
wounded soldiers. Meetings were 
held two evenings in the week at 98 
I'Vont Street, in the Knights of Robert 
lunmct Hall. Three members, Mrs. 
1'. H. Murphy, Mrs. J. F. Hurley and 
Mrs. P. J. Moynihan, were designated 
to represent the auxiliary in the Sol- 
diers' Aid Association, whose object 
was the help of the soldier, irrespective 
of race or creed. These ladies spent 
a part of each day at the rooms of the 
Soldiers" Aid. cutting, sewing, etc., 
until the work in hand was acconi- 
Iilished. The greater part of the mate- 
rial used bv the auxiliarv was fur- 



nished by the Soldiers' .Aid, Init the 
former gave thread, binding, buttons, 
tape and labor for the articles made. 
The accomplishments of the organiza- 
tion in this line were seventy-seven 
abdominal bands, just the number of 
the original "Emmets ;" eighty com- 
fort bags, for the same company ; 
twentv dozen sheets, for the hospital 
ships, twenty dozen pillow cases, and 
twenty-five mosquito nettings, also 
for the ships. 

With this record of labor behind 
them, the auxiliary set about raising 
money for the soldiers and their fami- 
lies, for which purpose properly ar- 
ranged small books were given certain 
members for the entry of the names of 
givers. This was soon found to be a 
\erv slow an<l humiliating system, 
since so many causes were afield that 
the returns in no way were equal to 
the effort, though something more 
than eighty dollars was thus secured. 
That greater results might be at- 
tained, feminine efifort was directed 
towards entertainments which might 
attract the public, and, under the guise 
of rendering an equivalent for funds 
received, gather larger sums of money 
for the cause. 

Xo military campaign was ever more 
carefully planned than that which re- 
sulted in the lawn party given on the 
grounds of St. Stephen's Church, July 
27th. ^^'ith perfect weather and a 
generous, patriotic company, one even- 
ing's harvest garnered more than an 
all summer's canvass would have pro- 
duced. There was entertainment for 



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305 




all. Roth sexes and all ages were 
equally cared for. There was food for 
the mind and for the body, with di- 
versions for the eyes, ears, hands and 
feet. Evidently all had come to the 
festivities with the longest purses in 
their possessions, since the summing 
up of money received made a large 
average for all present. 

From 8 to 9.30 o'clock p.m., there 
was a literary and musical entertain- 
ment in the church hall, wherein the 
musical parts were taken by Miss 
Madge Feehan, Mr. John Roberts, 
Miss Mary Lynch, Miss May Butler, 
Miss Mary Cove, Mrs. William Hef- 
fren, and ^Ir. John Reardon. Mr. \\il- 
liam Collins played the banjo, while 
Miss ^Margaret Sullivan and Harry 
Foley gave readings, every effort se- 
curing deserved applause. Then fol- 
lowed the terpsichorean diversion 
upon a platform under a pavilion, 
where, to the music of Coburn's or- 
chestra, the "light fantastic'" was 
tripped till after 12.30 of the following 
morning; for did feet ever weary when 

"Music arose uitli its voluptuous swell"? 

There were some who did not care 
for the dancing, and for them there was 
prepared a hurdy-gurdy entertainment 
by certain misses in the guise of Ital- 
ian flower girls, as remote from the 
strains of the dance music as the 
grounds would permit. Then there 



was the \\ hile House Cafe Drum 
Corps, which pounded out UKist fitting 
martial music from their sheepskin 
covered instruments. Everywhere and 
at all times there were to be had, for 
compensation, most excellent refresh- 
ments consisting of ice cream, cake, 
candy, lemonade, popcorn, all .sorts of 
non-intoxicating beverages, souvenirs 
and flowers to the limit of every jjurse, 
as was evident in the grand summing 
up, which netted $608.48. Seldom has 
labor been better rewarded than on 
this occasion. The result indicated 
not only the best of planning and ex- 
ecution, but also the most patriotic 
impulses on the part of those who at- 
tended and so swelled the receipts. 

In the list of sub-committees might 
be found nearly every name in the 
auxiliary, for it was evidently an as- 
sociation of workers, each one vying 
with her neighbor to do her utmost. 
The society's President was Miss 
Mary E. Fitzgerald : the Secretary, 
Miss Abbie I. Heffren. and the Treas- 
urer. Mrs. W illiam Goodwin. Thus 
excellently officered, the record of the 
organization was a proud one. The 
funds secured at the lawn party were 
disbursed as follows : to the Soldiers' 
Aid Society, $125; to the "Emmets" 
in Cuba, $100; to the recruits in Camp 
Alger, $50; to needy families, $56; the 
remainder was passed over to the 
Honorary Corps for work among the 



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VOLUNTEER NURSES. 



needy ami > iiIutwIm,', aco irilint;- to the 
corps' iiiduim-iil. Aflrr the return of 
the soldiers from their Cuban cam- 
paign, certain ladies of the member- 
ship joined in visiting the invalids and 
reporting their condition to the S(il- 
diers' Aid and to the Honorary Corps. 
For masses in behalf of the men who 
died, the auxiliary assumed the ex- 
pense and also attended the services. 

In their records the society names 
the ])arties who were conspicuous for 
their gi\'ing to the cause, and among 
them should be mentioned the Rev. 
Father AlcCiillicuddy of St. Stephen's 
Church, who donated the use of the 
grounds for the lawn jiarty, as well as 



t;il>les. church hall, dishes, etc.; Clark, 
Sa\v\er Co.. for the loan of drinking 
glasses; Coburn's t)rchestra. for music; 
\\'illiam J. Tansey, who gave the bev- 
erages for the occasion; Washington 
Social Club, for decorations, and the 
Consolidated Street Railway, for ac- 
commodations. Xor should the devo- 
tion of Messrs. John Foley and Timo- 
thy Sullivan be forgotten, since, on the 
night of the jiarty, they hired a hurdy- 
gurdv and jierambulated the streets 
till nearly midnight, thereby being 
able to turn over to the hands of the 
fair patriots above forty-tive dollars 
to help swell the net proceeds. From 
Jerome Marble & Co. they received a 



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307 



■^ 


^1 


^^^!^P 


^^■*^^H 







\'OI,r\TKF.R XURSK: 



large numljcr of spong'cs to he scnl to 
the boys in Camp Alger, 1'. j. Jiulge 
donated the printing incident to their 
canvassing books, while the Robert 
Emmet Hall was gi\en by its 
Knightly occupants. Its work ac- 
complished, the auxiliary disbanded 
February 9th, 1899. 

For the sake of history and the in- 
terest in the story which must ever be 
fresh, the names of the members of the 
auxiliary are appended : Misses Lizzie 
Brosnan, Bridie and Katie Cahill, 
Minnie Carney, Mrs. Casavan, Misses 
Mamie Casey, Teresa Claffey, Katie 
Clemens, Jane Coligan, Jennie Connol- 
ly, Mrs. J. J, Corliss, Misses Katie 
Crowe, Mary Cullinane, Eunice Dar- 
ney, Mamie Deedy.Mary Degnan,Mrs. 
Jas. Degnan, Mrs. Frank Doyle. Mrs. 
N. Earle, Misses Mary E. Fitzgerald, 



Josie I'lyim, Kate. Margaret and Sarah 
l-Vilan, Statia (larrett, Teresa (iilmore, 
Mrs. William (iocidwin. Misses Mary 
(ireene. |ulia llaekett. [osephin'e 
Hartnette, Abbie 1. Ileltren. Nirs. Wil- 
liam Heffren, Mrs. J. F. Hurley, 
Alisses .Margaret Kiley. N'ora Larkin, 
Katie and .Mary .\. Leonard, ^[rs. 
James .MeCirath, Misses Sarah Mc- 
r'artlan<l, Ellen McTiernan, .\ima and 
Mary Mahony, Margaret and Teresa 
Martin. Margaret .Millea, Kate and 
Mary Monahan. Mrs. T. I. .Moynihan, 
Misses Julia, Kale and Margaret 
Murphy, Mrs. I". II. Murjiliy, .Misses 
Nellie ()"l"oole, Mamie and Nellie 
Russell. .Margaret Scannell, Nellie 
Sheridan, .Mary Sullivan, .Margaret 
Sweene}-, Josie, Maggie and .Minnie 
Powers, .\Iinnie Thompson, Mrs. B. 
L. Tromble\- and Miss Alarv Walsh. 



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WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



VOLUNTEERS' AID ASSOCIATION. 




Major E. 'I'. RAVMnNi., I'resi.lent. 

Tlie (k'parturr of ^^'( nxcster soldiers 
for the South, and the jiassaiLje nf thi.ise 
from other states thrdiis^h Worcester, 
early aroused her citizens tn tlie neces- 
sity of raising funds for meeting ex- 
penses sure to arise in many ways not 
immediately provided for by the State 
and nation. In compliance with a call, 
the first meeting of citizens for organ- 
ization was in the Hoard of Trade 
Hall, at 8 p.m., .May 27th. 1898. Im-oui 
this incei)tion grew the association 
known as almxe, whose ministrations, 
extending o\er more than five months, 
resulted in the collecting and expend- 
ing of above nine thousand dollars, 
thus conferriuL;- unninnhered blessings 
on homes and indi\idual^ otherwise 
left to suffer. 

The association was officered as ht\- 
lows : President, .Major I-",. T. Ray- 
mond: \'ice-|)resident. Kev. A. S. Car- 
ver: Secretary, Carl lionney: Treas- 
urer, Halleck llartlett, all of whom 
with the Hon. Stephen Salisbury, Gen- 
eral A. 1!. R. S])rague and Dr. T. J. 



Ilarrett, constituted an Executive Com- 
mittee. A Finance Committee was ap- 
|iointed having a single representative 
from each ward, as follows: \A'ard I, 
I'rank 1.. Dean: \\^ard 2, John J. Rior- 
dan ; Ward :;, William I. McLoughlin : 
Ward 4, I'h'ilip J. O'Connell : Ward 3, 
^latthew 1'.. Lamb: Ward 6, Colonel 
1-:. J. Russell ; Ward 7. Mayor Rufus P.. 
Dorlge, Jr.: Ward 8, R. James Tatman. 
The .\uditing Committee of three 
members comprised Messrs. Edwin 
lirown. James P. Hamilton and 
Samuel E. Winslow. The Relief Com- 
mittee had four members from each 
ward and the people thus designated 
were: ^^'ard I, Captain A. A. \\'hite. 
Charles E. Grant. Mrs. James Logan, 
Mrs. Marv H. P)Urr : Ward 2. Captain 
P. L. Rider, }. B. Shattuck, Mrs. Chas. 
H. Pinkham," Mrs. F. W. Wellington: 
\\'ard :;, Julius C. Zaeder. James F. 
Guerin. Miss Frances M. Athy, Miss 
l{\-elvn Alunroe: \\'ard 4, A. A. Rheu- 
lan, 'Patrick O'Dav, Mrs. P. H. Mur- 
phy, Mrs. T. F. Boyle: Ward 5, J. B. 
Stone, F. O. Dahlquist. Mrs. Charles 
H. Hall, Miss I. U. Crompton : Ward 
6, L Swan Brown, David Goggin, Mrs. 
William L. Robinson, Mrs. E. I. Co- 
mins ; Ward 7, Richard Healy, Capt. 
Horace Hobbs. Mrs. H. A. Knowles, 
Mrs. R. B. Dodge. Jr.: Ward 8. Lieu- 
tenant H. .\. Johnson, General Josiah 
I'ickett. Mrs. "A. M. Parker, Miss 
Frances M. Lincoln. 

The regular meetings of the associ- 
ation were held in the hall of the 
Board of Trade, such use having been 
generously donated through the Pres- 
ident. Mr. L E. Comins, who was also 
the "at large" member of the Relief 
Ci.immittee. At the very first meeting 
after organization. June 3d. letters of- 
fering services and aid were received 
from several bodies, while the first 
gift in the wa_\' of material assistance 
came in the shape of a check for $ioa 
from the "Emmet" honoraries. 



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309 



June 7tli tlie Relief Cciiniiiitlee met 
and oro-anized with Miss Frances AI. 
Lincoln as president, and Mrs. Charles 
H. Pinkham, secretary. The rooms of 
the Worcester Employment Society 
were offered for the use of the commit- 
tee in its labors. .\s the committee 
had the power of addinsf names to its 
list, at a subsequent meetinsj these 
were voted in, viz.: Ward i. Mrs. L. A. 
Elv. Mrs. Helen DeCamp ; \A'ard 2. 
Mr. Geo. F. P.lake, Mrs. H. S. Pratt; 
^^'ard 3. Dr. J. H. Kelley, Miss Nora 
Ready: ^^'ard 4, Hon. F. ,\. Harrin.c:- 
ton, ]Mrs. O'Toole : Ward 5, Richard 
H. Mooncv, Mrs. A\'illard ' l'\ I'ond: 
Ward 6, Theodore P. P.rnwn. Mrs. 
George H. Ward : A\'ard 7, ( )soood 
Plummer, Mrs. Tohn LeQ<r: Ward 8, 
F. M. Clark, Jr., Mrs. George E. 
Francis. 

At this time it wDidd be difficult to 
state just wild were the prime movers 
in the plan of an ass<iciati(Tn for the 
purpose of looking after the interests 
of all the volunteers and their fami- 
lies, but the expected passage of a 
Alaine regiment through the city on 
the 27th may have brought matters to 
a focus, since it was on the very night 
of said incident that the meeting for 
organization came. The Woman's 
Relief Corps of Worcester, in their 
efforts to properly receive the Maine 
boys, had taken the south store in the 
State iMutual building, and with ac- 
customed zeal were working most vig- 
orously. There were aliove thirty of 
these patriotic women who were see- 
ing to it that the proverbial hospital- 
ity of the Heart of the Commonwealth 
should suffer no disparagement if in 
their power to prevent. They were an 
already organized body and for many a 
day it had been theirs to look out for 
the creature wants of the "Boys in 
Blue." Under the efficient direction 
of their President, the late Mrs. Mary H. 
Burr, they presented a scene of earnest 
activity delightful to contemplate. 
From some sources always open to 
them, they had developed the means 
to secure large quantities of food and 
now they were preparing it for "hand- 
outs." In the midst of the hurly- 
burly. Captain Charles H. Pinkham, 
the husliand of one of the hardest 



workers in the corps, noticing the 
bustle in the hitherto unoccuiiied 
space, made bold to i-nter and to ask 
the cause thereof. To jiis susceptible 
mind the answer was sufficient, for he 
proceeded at once to lend a hand, in 
that he stationed himself near the door 
on the street, and all parties fortu- 
nate in his intimate ac(|uaintancc were 
held u]) for a contribution to the merit- 
orious object: and so well did he ply 
his avocation that in a \Trv short in- 
terval he was able to turn over to the 
ladies more than fort\ dollars. The 
practical character of tlu- Pinkham 
family is evident in the fad that a 
little later .Mrs. Pinkham, wh<i had 
been on a similar (|uest, was able to 
add five dollars to the masculine gifts. 
For the lads from the Pine Tree State 
there were made ready 300 loaves of 
bread, J500 doughnuts, se\'eral cheeses, 
with hams, butter and mustard neces- 
sary to reduce tlie luass to the shape 
of toothsome sandwiches. From the 
Creamerie restaurant on Pleasant 
Street had been ordered no gallons of 
prime coffee, and lieftire 6 ]).m. tlie 
work was all in sliape for the travel- 
ers. Then ajipeared the wagons of 
Calvin Farnsworth. and the food was 
trans])orted gratuitously to tlie I'nion 
Station. 

it was not till one o'clock in tlie 
morning of the ne.xt day. on the 28th, 
that the first section of the northern 
train drew into the station, hence the 
wait had been long, but all was in 
readiness for a c|uick exchange. An 
engine and a baggage car were in com- 
mission and the goods, ready for pass- 
ing over, were there, and by running 
alongside the waiting train it was 
ea.s\- to pass over the needful. Mayor 
Dodge and Halleck Bartlett were in 
control of the affair and everything 
worked admirably. Notwithstanding 
the unseasonable hour, more than a 
thousand people were in waiting and 
a large part of them remained till the 
last section was entertained, and this 
was not till after two o'clock. Hardly 
had the first section had its fill when 
the second appeared, to be followed, as 
above, by the third, when all the Maine 
bovs were happily speeded on their 
way to Cliickaniauga. Xor was all the 



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WORCESTER I\ THE SPANISH WAR. 



feediiitj done li}' the orsjanized relief, 
since tliere were many friends and rel- 
atives in the city who came down to 
find and remember their own : anions; 
them a mother with a liox ancl can of 
coffee fcir her son, her sixt\-five years 
being no barrier to late hours. Captain 
P. L. Rider of the Light Infantry also 
came along to find if Portland had ncjt 
sent some of her boys. Light Infantry- 
men, and so kindred to the ^^'orcester 
soldiers. It was a wide-awake com- 
pany, even though the hour was "wee 
and sma'," and it was quite natural 
that some one should shout, as the 
train was drawing out. "Remember the 
Maine," and the gallant boys from the 
Dirigo State answered merril_\', "You 
bet we will." ^\'hat a ])ity that the 
fortunes of war di<l not carry these 
soldiers to the scenes of hostility. 

Realizing that the raising of funds 
was the chief object of existence, the 
aid association lost nn time in getting 
to work, and all honorable methods 
were resorted to. Ministers preached 
in their respective jndpits on the needs 
of the hour, and collections were taken ; 
money came from volunteers and from 
the solicited, and all sorts of entertain- 
ments were given to help along the 
cause. Among the latter especially 
notable was the concert in Mechanics 
Hall, June i6th, when the Festival 
chorus bore the major part in one of 
the finest outbursts of song that e\'en 
that music-laden ]ilace ever experi- 
enced. The Worcester I'.rass Band 
was there and ("li.-irles II. ( irout drew 
on the ultimate resources ( jf the great 
organ, while Arthur j. I'.assett and 
Walter 1'.. I'-ai'Mi were the pianists. 
The programme \v;i> patriotic through- 
out, the excellent >olii ])arts being ren- 
dered by James H. Cafferty, iMrs. 
Daniel Downev. Mrs. Henrv !•". Har- 
ris. Dr. Paul' C. W. Dufault, Mrs. 
Dorathy McTaggart- Aliller. and .Miss 
P'lora I'rovan. It was when the mighty 
chorus began ".America," and tlu- audi- 
ence forgot to rise, that a wmnan rose 
in her place and with a wa\e of her 
handkerchief, as it were, bade the ]ieo- 
ple stand. She was obeyed with an 
alacrity that spoke \'olumes for the ap- 
preciation of the listeners. The l'"esti- 
val chorus at other tiIlle^ ma\ lia\ e 



rendered more classic music than that 
sung on this occasion, l)ut never did 
song touch more responsive chords. 
The "music in the air" was that of 
the nation's "mighty, faithful heart." 
The next money-getting plan was 
that of a tableau evening in Salis- 
l)ury's Hall, under the direction of 
John G. Heywood, Charles S. Hale 
and Halleck Bartlett. The date was 
June 2^(1, and the audience all that the 
most sanguine could ask. Eager, in- 
tent and appreciative, the people con- 
tributed not a little to increasing the 
relief fimd. The tableaux z'ivants and 
the li\ing ])ictures made an evening of 
l)leasure to this day recalled by many. 
'Idle di.splax' c:)f each scene, i. e.. the 
])arting of the curtains, was most ef- 
fecti\elv accomplished by two diminu- 
tive lads in wdiite page costumes. Mas- 
ters Henshaw Dewey and Thomas 
( ireene, while the real dramatis />(-;•- 
sonar of the charming e\-eiiing were 
Misses Dorotln and Rose Lincoln, 
Ldith and Xancy Larton. .Mildred 
Sargent. I'lorence Heywood. luhel 
llartlett. Helen White, Rosamond 
Mitchell, Mary I'.rooks, Helen Gould- 
ing, Catherine Kent. ( )live Mason, 
Maude .\rmsli\-, Mary Morgan. .\my 
Lrown. Mary ami Katharine Butler. 
Edith Baldwin, Emily Eaton, F.dith 
Hamilton. Edgeworth Whittall, Emily 
Richardson, Mrs. Samuel E. Winslow, 
Airs. Homer (iage. Mr. Richard Mitch- 
ell. .Masters Chester and I'hilip llev- 

Woo<l. 

Elsewhere in this \dlume mention 
has been made of the immense box of 
good things which the citizens brought 
together at the Armory and which 
Armorer (ieorge Hubbard ])acked for 
the boys, the same .going to Florida, 
and on whose nearly i>ne ton's weight 
the express was above $135- There- 
after it was thought best to send 
mone\- direct rather than use so much 
in |)a\iug transportation. 

Well along in July. Mrs. T. B. F. 
I'.ipland inaugurated a happy move- 
ment in enlisting the fingers and en- 
ergies of the Lamartine vacation 
school children in the making" or fold- 
ing of surgical sponges. Many of the 
children had relati\es in the service 
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311 



readily st-ciircd. and with sr]n<;- and rec- 
itation iif the leachnij events nf the 
strife, they made the work speed rii^ht 
merrilv. 

PerhajJs the event of all. dnrint; the 
war period, for raisinsj cash and at the 
same time interestinjj a lartj'e nnmber 
of people, was the baseball ijame 
played at the ()\al, July 226, between 
the doctors and the lawyers. The 
teams as they were ranged against 
each other were as follows : for the 
-•Esculapians, F. H. Baker. H. S. 
Knight. E. H. Trowbridge. II. W. 
Cronin, T. J. Foley. R. U. Small. C. 1'.. 
Stevens. F. A. L'nderwood. J. |. Raf- 
ferty. J. H. Kelley, J. \V. "McKoan. 
eleven in all. for the situation de- 
manded two first basemen and twn 
pitchers. The legal lights were J. E. 
Sulli\'an. Webster Thaver. R. A. Stew- 
art. W. E. Sibley, H. L. Parker. J. F. 
Jandron. Robert \\'ashburn. Rock- 
wood Hoar. H. S. Haskell. In both 
professions can be recognized some of 
the leading names in the city, an in- 
dication of the public interest, not so 
much in the game as for what it stood. 
While the score. 24 to 14 in seven in- 
nings in favor of the barristers, would 
not indicate the very highest kind of 
skill in the great American game, yet 
it did give the beholders a deal of fun 
for their money. It was \"ery oild to 
see men of note acting the juirt of 
hucksters, but they did their stunts ad- 
mirably. As peanut venders. Colonel 
Horace \'erry. Judge Geo. M. Wood- 
ward. Dr. W. T. Clark and Lawyer 
James McC<Jvern were stars. I'rank 
B. Hall found cocoanut cakes a source 
of revenue. John R. Thayer and Her- 
bert Parker dispensed lemonade to a 
thirsty crowd. Arthur P. Rugg sold 
the finest bunches of sweet peas of his 
own raising. Dr. L. F. \\'oodward 
found ready purchasers of his ginger 
pop and other mild beverages, while 
Frank H. Kelley made even non- 
smokers smoke b_\' the eloquent way 
he presented his cigars. The hit of the 
day. aside from those on the field, was 
made when the hurdy-gurdy of an 
Italian was captured and with Colonel 
W. A. Gile in ])lace of the steed be- 
tween the thills. John R. Thayer 
grinding and Frank P. Hall pushing 



behind, a march was made in front of 
the grandstand. For jntre. un(|ualifie(l 
mischief, nothing could be more funny. 
and the responses as the hats went 
round were free and full. It is said 
that so completely did the company 
exhaust its change sup|)ly that the 
tri]) home, by wav of the trollej-, oc- 
casioned the conductors lots of trou- 
ble in the breaking of bills. I'ew men. 
guilty or otherwise, escajx'd some kind 
of a demand upon their pocketbooks. 
If the visitor got oft easily from tiie 
score card sellers. P. J. O'Connell. 
Henry Y. Simpson. Chandler lUillock. 
Ceorge S. Taft. Dr. \\'. R. (lilman. Dr. 
R. W. Cireeni.', Dr. C. A. Trip]) and Dr. 

D. 1'.. ljp\ell. he was sure to fall a 
victim to one of the ticket sellers. F. 

E. Gunnison. Dr. E. D. Fitch. E. A. D. 
Moss and ^^^ J. Peacock. Ushering 
for the memorable day was by E. F. 
Thompson. M. M. Taylor. C. E. Mc- 
(iillicuddy. T. C. Carrigan. C. W. 
Saunders. J. P. Morrissey. all disciples 
of Coke and I'dackstone. while Doc- 
tors Lamson .\llen. M. |. ()"Meara. 
G. O. Ward. J. M. W . I'ariiham. A. M. 
Shattuck and George II. Hill did tiie 
honors for the followers of Hijiiioc- 
rates. Frank L. Dean, Esc].. headed 
the grand entree of all the ])erformers. 
while Samuel E. Winslow and Rufus 
\\'oodward. well seasoned baseball 
])lavers. armed respectively with re- 
volver and rifie. undertook the arduous 
duties of umpire. The ball was started 
bv the first citizen of Massachusetts. 
United States Senator George F. Hoar, 
rising in his place and deftly tossing 
the si)here into the midst of the con- 
testants. That more than $2000 was 
netted for the relief fund was some 
token of the success of the ])rofe.ssional 
men's efforts. 

The many entertainments during 
the summer, concerts, tableau.x. lawn 
])arties and every possible device, 
s.-rved not only to raise money for a 
good cause. but also relieved the minds 
of many anxious friends too much dis- 
posed to dwell on the tril)ulations of 
the men in Cuba. While a recital of 
all the incidents of the summer might 
afford pleasant reading, space forbids 
further reference. 

As the season advanced it occurred 



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WOKCESTER I\ THE SP.WISH WAR. 



to the nfficcrs of the assi iciati< m that 
tlie best way to get their gifts to the 
men afield was to send them in charge 
of one of tlieirownnumber.andHalleck 
]!artlett was designated fur that luir- 
jHise. Aljove one tlmusand ddlhirs' 
worth (if necessities was collected, 
and the packages, large and small, 
were transpcirted to the Red Cross 
head(|uarlers in Xew ^'ork, Tt was a 
motlev arra\ . thongh a nscful one. 
that was thns sent on. There were 
medicine cases from Brewer & Co.. in- 
cluding 15.000 cjuinine pills, a keg of 
Jamaica ginger, lemon tablets, mus- 
tard plasters, etc.; cases of stimu- 
lants fmni E. S. Pierce «!v Co.. and 
fnim (ieiirge F. Hewett, fur hos|iital 
use: (Juinsigamond Lmlge with Raw- 
son & Simpson sent tnbacci:) and 
pipes enniigh for a regiment, let alune 
fdur cnmpanies. Literary wants were 
lonked iiut for liy James Logan, who 
sent a (piire of paper with en\elopes 
for e\er\^ man in the Worcester re|i- 
resentatioii ; I'utnam. I )a\is & Co.. in- 
delible ]iencils. and !•'. A. l^aston sent 
reading matter: 1 )nncan & Goodell 
furnished pocket kni\es to sharpen the 
|iencils with: K. T. Smith Company, 
wholesale grocers, gave .-i long list of 
items in their line, as condensed milk. 
pickles, soa]), extract of lieef, cereals, 
preserved tisli. and candies. The enu- 
meration of articles of underwear fur- 
nished b\- a generous ])ublic would 
fill columns of this l)ook, but e\-ery- 
thing was securely packed and S'ut to 
Xew York for shi])ment to the field. 

Then canie a (jhase of the situation 
not apprrci:ited till the .gifts were 
reail) lo ],v >vn{. Red tape obstacles 
interposed of ijic most obstructive 
kind. Thongli .Mr. Rartlett visited 
W .-ishingtoii ,iiid had at his back so 
stronj; a sui>]iorter as ."senator George 
I-', lloar. and ;ill his n-ipiests were 
granted, il was well nigh impossible 



for him to get awa}" on the same ves- 
sel with his charge. At last, however, 
the seemingU' impossible was sur- 
mounted and. on the Breakwater with 
Worcester's tokens of love and appre- 
ciation, he left New York, .\ugust 3d. 
for the regions of fe^■er and war. 
Though the .eifts diil not reach the 
scenes of need just as their givers had 
lio])ed. vet ex'entuallv they were de- 
voted to the good of the soldiers. 

From the final statement of the as- 
sociation it appears that there passed 
through its hands the sum of $9684.89. 
of which large amount all was dis- 
liensed for the good of the soldiers and 
their families, except $1247, which was 
e(piall\- di\ided at the closing u\> of 
the account among the \'eteran Asso- 
ciations of the City Guards, the Light 
Infantrv. and the Wellington Rifles; 
the '"F.mmet" honoraries and the 
Woman's Relief Corps. \'o community 
e\-er did itself greater credit than did 
\\'orcester in her de\otion to the 
cause of suft'ering humanity. While in- 
di\-idual reference is often invidious, 
and while ex'cry (.me interested did his 
part in the haiipiest m.mner possible. 
vet there would lie no hesitation on the 
]iart of an\ one in the parting state- 
ment that :l large ii;irt of the success 
of the \\(irk was the direct result of 
the dex'otifjn and constant application 
of Air. Halleck Bartlett, to whom the 
|ierio(l of the \var was one of cam- 
])aigning almost as arduous as that in 
which the Worcester \'oung men were 
engaging beneath the tropical sun. 
\ot for man\ hours at a time were the 
sons of Worcester out of the minds 
and hearts of the citizens who had 
speeded their going, had watched with 
breathless interest their progress, and 
with oi)en arms greeted their return. 
Citizens and soldiers were alike 
worth.v ot each other. 



THE RELIEF 

( )ne |diase of the work of the X'ohm- 
teer Aid Association demands special 
mention. \iz.. that of the committee 
whose members were named earlier in 
this article. Theirs was a direct and 



COM.MITTI 


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personal lal 


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issible of adequate 


(lescri]iti(in. 


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and lessened suf- 



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impensated for the 



TMK RELIEF Ci ).M M ITTEK, 



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Mrs. Anihe A. Robinson. 

lluiughtk'ssness of husbands and fa- 
thers whose place was with their fam- 
ilies rather than in the ranks, for 
America has nnniarrieil nu-ii enough to 
fiS'ht all her liattles; l)Ut un such 
thousfhts were in the minds nf the 
committee when they undertook to 
supply what others had omitted. 
Extra rooms were iipened in the same 
quarters with the Employment Soci- 
ety, and the same were put in chartre 
of Mrs. Ansjie .\. Robinson, the wife 
of William L. Robinson, each actividy 
and for a long time connected with 
the Grand Army and Relief (.'orjis re- 
spectively. 

By no means could the duties of tlie 
position have fallen on more trust- 
worthy shoulders. \'igilant, active, 
sympathetic and discriminating, Mrs. 
Robinson brought to her place just 
what the situation demanded, and most 
nobly did she work, earl\- and late, day 
and night, in season and mit. till the 
word "finis" was written, after the sol- 
diers were mustered out and peace 
again had resumed her happy sway. 

.\s the vote of the Executive Com- 
mittee to thus open rooms was taken 
June 20th, it must have been about 
this time that the active campaigning 
began, and by the direction of the same 



l)ody they were closed Xnveniber 3d 
of 1898, so for fi\-e months there was 
an open door through wdiich immedi- 
ate want might be sup])licd, a slight 
compensation for the evils following 
the failure of humanity, thus far, to 
beat its swords into plowshares. Eor- 
tunateh- for the convenience of the an- 
nalist, the main features of Mrs. Rob- 
inson's work have been collated by her 
and it is possible to summarize them 
in the following lines. In addition to 
the care of the helpless, there was the 
preparation of all sorts of articles for 
hospital use, as sheets, pajamas, can- 
opy nettings and scores of other 
items, all under the direction of Chair- 
man Lincoln, but it is with the relief 
work that we are chiefly interested 
now. 

The otficial designation of .Mrs. Rob- 
inson in her labors was Chairman of 
the "Local Relief," and she had au- 
thority to draft from outside sources 
sitch people as she chose to call to her 
assistance. .Applications for hel]) fre- 
quently went directly to Treasurer 
Bartlett, and where it was possible for 
him to su|)ply at once, he complied, 
otherwise the request was turned over 
to Mrs. R. with instructions to inves- 
tigate. Considering the size of the 
city ami the number of api)licants,, this 
was no small task. Much of the diffi- 
culty- of the work arose from an exag- 
gerated notion in the minds of some 
families as to what the jniblic duties 
were, as in the case of one little 
woman who thought that the govern- 
ment or some ])arties were .going to 
take herself and family at once into 
complete care and keeping, instead of 
l)eing a sort of supplementary aid to 
her own efforts. From a letter from 
the Mayor's Clerk, Charles H, Rench- 
lev, it is possible to secure a fair idea 
of the kind of requests that were daily 
receix'cd : 



The bearer, Mrs. 



filed her .ippli 



cation for State aid several days ago. but on 
account of the red tape to be gone through 
with, she can draw nothing till about the 25th 
of thi.s month, when she will get relief for her- 
self and nine children, for July and .Vugust. In 
the meantime. I understand slie is suffering 
for the necessities of life. Can you help her? 
She will state her case. 



314 



WORCESTER IX THE SPANISH WAR. 



It was for just such cases that the 
committee came into existence, but 
just think of the heedlessness of the 
soldier and culpableness of the enlist- 
ing officer who would take a father 
away from such a res]>onsibility when 
able-bodied }'ounsj men were anxious 
to go. Sometime men and recruiting 
officers will Ix' mure sensible. A 
woman writes to the treasurer to ask 
if a mother must be sick before she can 
get aid from the association. An en- 
listed man writes the President of the 
association from Framingham re- 
questing the same to look after his 
wife while he tries to place the flag on 
the Cuban breastworks. Evidently his 
patriotism should have been tempered 
with some discretion. 

In very carefully kept books, Mrs. 
Robinson entered the names of those 
helped, with such remarks on the cases 
as the circumstances warranted, a cul- 
lection that will be of infinite interest 
to the anti(|uarian of the twenty-first 
century. Help was given to th; fam- 
ilies (~if those in the regular arm\'-as 
well as to those of the \Vorcester com- 
panies, all being equally meritorious. 
The help rendered was usually in the 
shape of provisions and clothing, the 
same based on the apparent needs and 
income of the family. Personal obser- 
vation was had in all cases to decide 
upon their merits. There were dis- 
trict nurses whose duties carried them 
where they could see for themst-lves 
the wants of the destitute. Manv 
babies were b(jrii in these days, and the 
place of the su|.ip(irting father was sup- 
plied by these good wdiiien wIki 
helped the mothers thr. .ugh their 
hours of jieril and sufTering. 

Human nature, in all its \arietie.s. 
could be studied fmm the viewpoint 
of the ccinnnittee. Some people 
wcjuld accept only the l)arest necessi- 
ties, wliile others were ready to take 
all that was offered and still stand with 
outstretched hand. ( )ne woman, ex- 
pecting to beconie a mother ere long, 
is fearful lest she be ejected from her 
home for non-])ayment of rent, but the 
committee's help saves her; in all cases 
the giving was done in a wav to con- 
vince the recipients that it was the 
public's appreciation of the situation, 



not alms nor charity. When a call for 
cast-off cliithing was made, the re- 
sponse was immediate and sufficient, 
especially from All Saints' parish, 
whose generositv drew from the com- 
mittee a vote of thanks. The sudden 
departure of the men upon whom so 
many were dependent and the liinited 
supplies on hand, soon rendered out- 
side aid necessary. 

.A.t times the duties of our Chairman 
became almost judicial, as when she 
had to act between a woman and the 
latter's friends, who wished her to 
send her children to Canada, to be 
boarded there at the public expense, 
while she, the mother, went out to 
work. To Airs. R.'s judgment, the bet- 
ter wa}- was to move the family into 
cheaper quarters and with association 
aid keep her children with her. The 
latter counsel happily prevailed and a 
home was ready for the husband and 
father when his release came. There 
was no danger of pauperizing the peo- 
ple helped, except certain cases al- 
ready upon the city's list. The habit- 
ual Ijeggar was easily detected. ( )f 
course there were frauds, but they 
were in a very small minorit\'. and in 
the words of the Chairman, it was 
much l)etter to be deceived at times 
than that a single meritorious case 
shotdd he neglected. 

The following instance did not dis- 
courage the good people who looked 
into it; the help was needed, even if 
it were given on false representations : 
The stor_\- was told of a mother and 
fi\e children being in the most abject 
want, their lionie little better than a 
kennel : that the father, a drunken fel- 
low at best, had left his abode to seek 
lor work, and had ended his seeking by 
enlisting, and that he was then in the 
ami}-. The want was so ol)\'ious and 
pressing, help was granted and inves- 
tigations as to truth were made later; 
then it appeared that the man's name 
did not occur in the lists of Worces- 
ter's soldiers, but inquiry at the police 
station did reveal the fact that the so- 
called soldier was doing service for 
the county in the jail, having been 
sent there duly from the Central Dis- 
trict Court, and that his wife, herself, 
ap|ieared against him. The poor 



THK KKLIEF COMMITTEE. 



315 



vvinnan lu-edcd all that shr ,L;i>t. but 
she was not an army widow. 

The return of the volunteers and 
their subsequent illness brought on a 
new phase of work. Xurses had to be 
supplied and physicians furnished, but 
nowhere did the committee falter. 
Prescriptions were filled at the ex- 
pense of the association, and every 
possible convenience was given where 
the want was known. If the govern- 
ment was lacking in certain directions, 
and there seemed to be grounds for 
the accusation, the remissness was 
wonderfully supplemented by the 
folks at home. Airs. Roliinson tinally 
found herself acting the part of (|uar- 
termaster and commissary to full- 
grown men, trying to fit them with 
garments in the place of thefrayedand 
soiled regimentals in which they had 
come home. Indeed she was wont to 
remark, save in the matter of uniform, 
she began to feel as though she were a 
soldier herself and that she had reallv 



been discharged from the Second Reg- 
iment. Through all these months she 
says she received only one expression 
of disrespect, and that was from a 
voung man too badly inebriated to 
realize what he was saying. When he 
returned to his senses he had the man- 
liness to come back and most con- 
tritely ai)ologize for his unseemly be- 
havior, I'.ack of the rum demon. 
almost e\ery one "is a man for a' 
that and a' that." Transiiortation 
was sometimes furnished regulars and 
sailors back to their resjiective sta- 
tions, and a word of thanks from the 
reci])ient on his safe arrival was an 
oasis in the midst of so great a waste 
of suffering. Thus in a thousand ways 
did the men and women of Worces- 
ter, ihrnugh their re])resentati\es. re- 
member the .Scriptural injunction: 

InaMiuicli ;i.s ye have done it unto one of 
tin- le.isl 111" llicsc my bretliren, ye have done il 

until me. 




CATIIEDR.^L IN S.\NTI.\(;o. ONE OF THE OLDEST IN .\MEKieA. 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 




noNH. IN Waij-u Colors bv Kred P. Dhan. Company C. and Presented to Post io. Pebruarv i6. hjo 



SPANISH WAR \i-;tkka.\s. 



3i; 



Legion Spanish W ar Veterans. 

COLON KL I-,. K. SIIIIMWA^' CAMP, NO. 30. 

[Instituted May _'8, 1902. witli tifty-unc charter nieiiibcrs. The name nl J. J. Corliss is 
number one on tlie list, that of Lieut. \\'ni. R. McCann. number two.] 

Commander, Arthur S. Longley : Senior \ice Connnander, J. J. Corli.ss; Junior 
\'ice Commander, Edward R. Darker: Paymaster, Michael Hosjan : Quartermaster, 
Louis B. Glixman; Adjutant, Dr. A. F. Wheeler: .'burgeon. Dr. Peter (). Shea; 
Officer of the Day, W'm. E. McCann: Officer of the (uiard, S. K. Clapp : Officer 
of Watch, J. J. Quirk: Sergeant Major, James 1^. L. Todd; Quartermaster Ser- 
geant, P. Brule : C'olor Sergeants, J. I''. Quilty, C. 1.. I lunipln\-y. 

Past Commander, Capt. l-ldwin (1. Barrett. 

Meetings, thiril Wednesday of each miuith in Sons of \'eierans' Hall. Xo. 41S Main .Street. 



Adams, ^\^ G., 2" W . Bovlston ; Co. 

H, 2d Mass., U.S.W 
.\hern, Timothy J., 30 Ward; Co. G, 

9th Mass., 'U'S.V. : died March 9. 

1905. 
Aldrich, Olnev T., 141 Beacon ; Co. 

C, 2d alms's.. U.S.\'. 
Allen, Frank L., 8 Forest : Captain, Co. 

C, 2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
.\llen (Ahlin), John D., 22 Greendale 

Ave.; Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
Allison, R. L., 56 Front ; Corporal, Co. 

A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
.\llison, Walter H.. 4 nudlcy Place; 

First Sergeant, (_o. A, jd Mass., 

U.S.V. 
Alton William R., Worcester; Co. K, 

6th Mass., U.S.V. 
Amell, Harrv C, i8i Woodlan.l : Co. 

H, 2d Mass., U.S.A'. 
Andresen, Lucas, 180 Canterbury ; Co. 

F, 2d ?ilass., CT.S.\'. 
Ballou, Herbert A., 24 Lee; Co. .\, 2d 

Mass., U.S.V. 
Baril, H. \'., 51) Pleasant; ist Maine, 

U.S.V. 
Barker, Edward R.. 32 Crystal : Co. G, 

9th Mass., U.S.V. 
Barrett, Edyvin G., 128 Paine; Captain, 

Co. A, 9th Mass., U.S.W 
Benson, Nils, U. S. Army; Corporal. 

U. S. Marine Corps. 
Bergstrom, John F., 20 Laurel; .\rli- 

ficer, Co". B, 12th U. S. Infantry. 
Bjorkman, William, 6 Rodney; Co. C, 

46th U.S.\'. 



Blair, b'rank K., 58 Orange; I'.attery 

P., 2d U. S. Artillery. 
Boyd, .Morris C 2 Green Pane; ist 

Naval P.attalion, l".S..\. 
Brett, Dennis. 15 Pink; C>i. 1, i_nh 

U. S. Infantry. 
Brigham, Dexter I-".., 107 t'limmercial; 

Sergeant, Co. IP 2d .Mass., U.S.X'. 
Piride, Philemon. 59 Cjrand ; Co. .\. 2d 

.Mass., U.S.V. 
Biuke, Ulysses JiL, 126 Green ; Co. K, 

(;th U. S. Infantry. 
Butler, Clarence E.. 8 Davton ; Co. C, 

2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
Butler, George C, Portland, Me. ; 

Fort :\lcKinlev, U. S. H. .\rtillerv ; 

Co. C. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
Butler, William PL. 10 Brittan : I'. S. 

Nayy. 
Casew lames .V. G.. 25 Tnnnbull : Mu- 

.sician. Co. G, 9th Mass.. U.S.\'. 
Cayanaugh, John F.. 10 Warren; Co. 

II. i2th U.S. Infantry; died March 

13. 1005. 
Cham])nev. Peter. 20 Mechanic: Co. K, 

1 2th I'. S. Infantry. 
Cheeyer, Fred W., thj .Aurora: Co. B. 

1 2th U. S. Infantry. 
Chei'ver. Herbert M.. '4 Fern: Co. B. 

nth U. .^. Infantry. 
Cbristenson. Elmer P. 4 Sherhrook 

.\v.; Co. A. 2d Mass., I'.S.V. 
Clapi).S. E.. 12 Newnort ; .Artificer. Co. 

A, 2d Mass.. U.S.V. 
Clossen. Herbert I.. West Bovlston: 

Corporal. 12th U. S. Infantry. 



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WORCESTER IN THE SP.\^MSH WAR. 



Ci:i;iklL-\', Tinidtln-, lo E. Shelliv; Co. 
.\,'yth Alass!, U.S.W 

Colhurn, Charles H.. i Hampden ; Co. 
C, 2d Mass.. U..S.V. 

Cole, Tames A., i8 Canal : Co. A, 2d 
Mass., U.S.V. 

Colev, Henrv G.. 21 Crompton : Co. A. 
2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Colvin, Christopher, 37 Harrison ; Co. 
K. I2th V. S. Infantry. 

Connors, William, 41) Endicott ; Cox- 
swain, U. S. Xa\-}-. 

Cook, Clarence E.. 74 Russell : Co. H, 
2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Cook, Fred A., Jr., 40 Lincoln : Co. D, 
1st N. H., U.S.\". 

Coditer. llenjamin, is Cnimptim; Co. 
A, 2d Mass., U.SA". 

Corliss, John j., h Clarendon; O. M. 
Serg^eant, Cm. C, ()th Mass., U.S.V. 

Cronin, Dennis J., police station ; Ser- 
geant, U. S. Marine Corps. 

Crooker, Leonard M., 22 Belmont ; Ser- 
geant, Co. C, 2(1 Mass.. U.S.\\, 
26th U. S. Infantry. 

Cross, John J., 28 Orchard : Battery C. 
2d"U. S. Artillery. 

Cruikshank, James T., 22 Woodland; 
Co. A. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Cunimings, Matthew, 6 Scott ; Corpo- 
ral. Co. I. 26th U.S.\'. Infantry. 

Dayis, ( )rlo W'., 48 laques Ay.; Co. 
.V, 2d Mass., U.SlV. 

Dean. Fred P., S Newbury; Co. C, 2d 
Mass., U.S.V. 

Degnan, C. J., 59 I'resctitt; Sergeant, 
' Co. G, 9th AYass., U.S.\'. 

Delaney, Alichael J., 24 \'ernon ; Co. 
C,.'9th Mass., i'.S.X'. 

Dennis, William H., 2^1; I'ark A\'.; 
Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

De.Marco, Iosei)h, 130 .Shrewslnn'\- ; 
Co. H,"2d Mass., U.S.\'. 

Ditson, Charles H., 44 Fales ; Co. H, 
2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Doran. Frank H., 90 faipies .\ye. ; Cor- 
poral, Co. Ci, 9th" Mass.. U.S.V. 

Do\le, Dennis J., 17 Lunelle; Co. G, 
' 9th Mass., I'.S.X'. 

Dovle, Frank P., 33 Temiile; Co. G, 
' 9th Mass.. U.S.\'. 

Dumas, .\delard J., 181 Canterbury; 
Co. B, 43d U. S. Infantry. 

Eldridge. Clifford T., 469 Grove ; Cor- 
poral, Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Fairbanks, Harry B., 27 Richards; 
Major, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 



Farrow, George S., 1,2/ Main ; Co. C, 

2d Mass., U.S.\'." 
Fa\-, Peter L, 1,2 Prescott ; Troop F, 

5th U. S. Cavalry. 
Feenev, Patrick L, g Belknap; io8th 

Coast Artillery, U.S.A. 
Felty, George H., 17 Catharine; First 

Lieutenant, Co. C, 9th 111., U.S.\'. 
Fischer, Charles A.. 672 Main ; Co. A, 

2d Mass., U.S.V. 
Fitzpatrick, John E.. 4^ Ward; Co. G, 

9th Mass., U.S.V. ^ 
Fitzpatrick, Patrick J.. 2 Foyle ; Cor- 
poral, Co. L, I2th U. S. Infantry. 
Flint. Charles J., 11 Elizabeth; Co. H, 

2(1 Mass., U.S.V. 
Fogertv, John E., 19s Millhurv; Co. 

G.Vnh Mass., L^S.X'. 
Forsberg, Charles, i Kosta ; Corporal, 

Battery C. 2d U. S. Artillery; 

Troop^H, r,th U. S. Cavalry. 
Foss, Rodney, Si)ringfield ; I2t"h U. S. 

Infantry. 
Freeman, Harrj- E., 6 Fo.x ; Battery B, 

2d LT. S. Artillery. 
Fyrberg, Charles, XX'est Boylston St. ; 

I2th V. S. Infantry. 
Gardner, Octave E., 9 College; 12th 

L'. S. Infantry. 
Garrett, Michael F., 140 lielniont; Co. 

G, 9th Mass., IT.S.V. 
Gilligan, Edward, 109 Summer; Co. F, 

2d Mass., U.S.V. 
(iilmore, George C, 7 \'ine ; Co. H, 

2d Mass., U.S.V. 
(ileason, Odiorne J. W.. Post (Office; 

Co. C, 2d Ma.ss., l\S.\'. 
Gleason, Willis, 18 Hawlev; Co. H, 

2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
( ili-xman, Louis B., 58 Lamartine; Co. 

C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
( ioddard, George N., 660 Grafton ; 12th 

LT. .S. Infantry. 
Gould, Lubertia M., 30 Mendon; Co. 

F, I2th U. S. Infantry. 
Gowans, John G.. 11 Austin; Ser- 
geant, Co. A, 2(1 Mass., U.S.V. 
Green, John T., 618 Main ; Corporal, 

Co. G, 9th Mass., LT.S.\\ 
Green, Ralph C, 10 Preston ; Co. A, 2(1 

Mass., U.S.V. 
Griffin, Henry, 23 Pond; Co. G, 9th 

Mass., U.'S.V. 
Griswold, Charles E., 20 Mulberry ; 

Artificer, Co. K, 12th I'. S. In- 
fantry; Battery E, 1st I'. S. Artil- 
lery. 



SPANISH WAR VICTKKANS. 



.'119 



Guilliani, William A., i Ciillc.i;c ; Trdci]) 

D, 6th I'. S. Cavalry. 
Gully, Michael, 85 Salem; Co. G, 9th 

Mass., U.S.\'.^ 
Hackett, Edward F.. 84 Proxidcnce : 

Co. G, 9th Mass.. U.S..\. 
Hagberg, John G., Worcester : Cor- 
poral, Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
Hagertv, Stephen F., 315 Grafton : Co. 

G, 9tli Mass., U.S.V. 
Hall, Ernest B., Milford : Co. .\. 2(1 

Mass., U.S.V. 
Havs. Fred R., 1 ] Mendon ; Co. A, 2d 

■ Mass., U.S.\\ 
Havward, Arthur L., s Preston : Co. 

' A, 2d Mass.. U.S.V. 
Healv, Patrick E., 123 West lUnlston ; 

F Battery, 3d U. S. Artillery. 
Helm Oscar, 4 Everard : Corporal, Co. 

L, I2th U. S. Infantry. 
Hicks, R. C, 140 Beacon ; Co. A. Bat- 
talion of Engineers, U.S.A. 
Hill, George H., 5 Ferdinand ; Co. C, 

2d Ma'ss., U.S\V. 
Hoar, George F., 3 Merrifiild : Cor- 
poral, Co. H, 9th U. S. Infantry. 
Hoar, Michael L.. 4 \'ernon ; Co. G, 

9th Mass., U.S.V. 
Hobbs, Howard K.. Court Housi>: 

Corporal, Co. A. 2d ?ilass., U.S.\'. 
Hogan, Michael, 27 Gardner; Co. M. 

6th Mass., U.S.\'. 
Holden, Charles S., 40 \'ine; Captain. 

Co. H, 2d Ma.ss., U.S.V. 
Hooker, Walter F., 29 Ingleside .\\e. ; 

Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.\' . 
Koran, Michael J., 48 Barclay ; I'irst 

Sergeant, Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.\". 
Humphrey, Charles L., no Summer; 

Co. H. 9th U. S. Infantry. 
Hurd, Herbert E., 2t, Charlotte; 3d 

U. S. Cavalry. 
Hurd, Joel B.. 2^ Charlotte; Troop L, 

6th U. S. Cavalry. 
Jenkins, M. P., 161 Highland; Co. B. 

I2th U. S. Infantry. 
Johnson, Albert S., 10 Lancaster; Co. 

A, 2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
Johnson. Roland. 27 Russell: Co. C, 

2d Mass., U.S.\'. 
Johnston, Joseph H., 523 Park .\ve. ; 

Corporal, Batteries B and I. U. S. 

Heavy Coast Artillery. 
Jones. George T., 276 Grafton ; Co. C, 

2d Mass., U.S.V. 
Jones, \\'illard F., 19 Piedmont; Co. 

M, I2th U. S. Infantry. 



Jnrdan, l-'rederiek 1'... 2 Isabella; Ser- 
geant, e'o. H, 2(1 Ma.ss., U.S.V. 
Keane, Maurice A., 7 Si gel ; Co. G, 

9th Ma.ss., U.S.V. 
Kellaher, Thomas F., 109 Highland; 

Co. G, ()th Mass.. U.S.\'. 
Kelleher. Thomas J., 96 Vernon ; Co. 

G. (nh .Mass., U.S.V. 
KelK\ , Thomas B., 247 Main ; Co. G, 

(/ih Mass.. U.S.V. 
KelU\ . Timothy, 50 Green; Corixiral, 

Co. A. 3d Xeb., U.S.V. 
Kenncv, Charles E., 13 Clifton; Co. G, 

.)th Mass., I'.S.V. 
Kidder, Lyman W.. 6 Charlotte; Co. 

.\1. 12th U. S. Infantry. 
Kilklca. Charles. 66 Behnont ; Oiler, 

C S. Xa\y ; was on the Itoston in 

.Manilla Harbor, May i, 1898. 
Killian, Henry, 70 Lafavette ; Corporal, 

Co. E. 202 X. Y.. U.S.V. 
King. James F., rear 71 Madison; Cor- 
poral, Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.W 
King, Joseph L.. 2^ Merrick; Corporal, 

'C\i. II, 2d Mass., U.S.W 
Knibbs, Charles H.. 6 Barton Place; 

Co. C, 2d Mass.. U.S.V. 
Korosei Stany. 16 Foyle; Co. I, 9th 

U. S. Infantry. 
Lachapelle. Ralph. 4 Wall; Co. G. 1st 

K. 1.. L'.S.X'. 
Lallammc. loscph 1".. 4 t'linton ; (."()..\. 

J.l .Mass.. U.S.V 
Lambert. .^tei)hen .\.. 34 Grove; Bat- 
tery G. 2d I'. S. .\rtillery. 
Lamberton. C harles !•".. 9 Preston ; Co. 

A. 2d Mass.. U.S.\". 
Larkin. Edward F.. 171 Washington; 

V. S. Marine Corps. 
Larkin, John. 24 Coral; Co. G, 9th 

.Mass!. U.S.V. 
Larkin, John ].. 171 Washington; Co. 

G. 9th :\Iass.. U.S.N'. 
Lawrence. Cyrus H.. 26 Bradley ; Co. 

E, 26th U. S. Infantry. 
Lawson. .\lbert. 2^ Maple Terrace; Co. 

C, 43d U.SA". 
Leonard. William M.. ^6 Fox; Co. G, 

9th Mass., U.S.W ■ 
Linehan. John J.. 12 Austin ; Battery 

I, 2d U. S. .\rtillery. 
Long, Luman B. ; Hospital Corps, 

U.S.A. 
Longley, Arthur S., 82 Piedmont ; 

First Sergeant. Co. C, 2d Mass., 

U.S.V. 



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WORCICSTER IX THE SI'AXIS}! WAR. 



Love. All)(.Tt F., I Kingslnirv ; Cor- AI(j\nili;m. I'. ].. 64 Miill)errv; Ser- 

jKiral, Co. H. 2cl Mass., l'.S.\'. ' -c-ant. C). (i, ijth Mass.. U..S.\'. 

Lowe. William L.. u I'rescott : Co. L Miirphv. William 11.. died Oct. 12, 

6th Mass., l'..S.\". 11,04; *-"■ '■• Wth Mass., U.S.\'. 

Lundberg, Carl .\.. 18 Laurel; Co. H. Murray, .Vrchie F.. 8 Cutler; Corporal. 

9th U. S. Infantry. Co. A. 2d Ma.ss., U.S.V. 

Lundstrom, Charles L., 240 \\'ebster ; Murray. John E., 36 L'nion Ave.; 2d 

Co. A, 2.vl v. S. Infantry. l\'S." Heavy .VrtilL-ry. 

McCann, William E., 79 Harrison; Newton, Albert E., 2 Freeland; Co. H, 



9th 



Second- Lieutenant, Co. ( 
Mass.. U..S.\ 
McCann. William E., Jr.. 79 Harrison 
Sergeant, ist Div., 3d Corps, b'ieli 
Hospita 



2d Mass.. U.S.\\ 
Northridge. Charles. 19 Thomas; Co. 

I, 9th U. S. Infantry. 
O'Callaghan. I. H.. s Silver; Co. G, 

9th .Mass.". U.S.\''. 



McCartin. Michac 



geant, Co. G, gth Mass., I'.S.V 



107 Main; Ser- O'Flynn, Michael J.. 12 E. Shelby; Co. 



G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 



McCullough, E. A., 93 Clian<ller; As- O'Hara, Peter J., Hotel Adams; Cor- 



sistant Surgeon. 41SI C S. In- 
fantry. 

-McDonald, Thomas L!., 20 I'roxidence ; 
Co. H, 9th Mass.. L^S.W 

McDowell. William ].. 13 Wald..; Co. 
K, I2th U. S. Infantry. 



l)oral. U. S. Alarine Corps. 

( )'Keefe, Patrick L. 604 Main ; Co. G, 
<,th Mass., LT.S.\'. 

( )'Leary. Cornelius, ^i/j .Shrewsbury; 
Sergeant, Co. K. 12th U. S. In- 
fantry. 



McGillicuddv, Gerald F.. 7/ Gage; Co. O'Learv, Jeremiah, 61 A\'ard ; Co. B. 

G, 9th Aiass., U.S.V. 9th U. S. Infantry. 

McGuire. Hugh. (10 A'ernon ; Co. G, ( )liyer, Ernest (1.. r2(i Canterbury ; Co. 

9th ?\Iass.', IT.S.V. P>. 43<-l U. S. Infantry. 

MacKav, lohn C, Sjiencer; Co. H, 2d Osterberg. (jus L. 147 \'enion ; Cor- 

Mass.', LT.S.V. poral ist U. S. Cavalry. 

McLoughlin. Hugh, 18 Assonet ; I2lh Payne, W'illiam V.. 10 Oliver; Co. B, 

U. S. Infantrx'. V. S. Infantry. 

Mauee. .-\rthur C.. 616 Main; Cn. .A., Pembleton. Alonzo J.. 30 Fountain; 



2(1 Mass., U.S.W 
Malm, .\lexander. Hotel Carlyle : 43d 

I'. S. Infantry. 
Malm, ( )liver W.. 31 I Main ; I'.S.X. 
.Martin, b'dward i.. ^^j Mason; Co. C. 

2d .Mass., U.S.V! 
.\l:irtin, Godfrey, 46 Orient; 12th U. S. 

Infantry. 
.Martin, ]. ].. 109 Grafton; Co. G, 9th 

-Mass., "U.S.\'. 
Merrifiel.l. Waldc A.. I E. .Shelbv ; Co. 

C. 2.1 .Mass.. U.S.W 
.Miller, James W. J.. <, Hermon; Co. C. 

U. S. Infantry. 
Miner, Dexter, Grafton; Co. H. 21I 

Mass.. I'.S.W 
Mitchell, Patrick, 18 Wdrth ; Sergeant, 

Co. V. 17th U. S. Infantry. 
.M.Hi.lv. William E., c,4 (irov'e; Co. A, 

2d .Mass., U.S.W 
.Morse. William II.. is Winslcw; C. 

A, 2d .Mass.. U.S.V. 
Moynihan. b'remi.ah J.. 1 Wabash 
'.'\ye.; ( ajitain. Co. (i. oth Mass.. 

U.S.\'. 



Co. C. 2(1 Mass.. U.S.V. 
Perkins. Mark .\.. 26 Pearl; Musician, 

f.th Mass., U.S.W 
Peterson, C. H.. 2 Maxwell Court ; 15th 

L^. .S, Infantry. 
Porter, ^^'alter .M., 58 Harrison ; Cor- 
poral, Co. F, 20th U. S. Infantry. 
Potter, Clarenc_> F., 9 Clifton Terrace; 

Co. (^T, 1st .\. H., U.S.V. 
Power, William T., i88 Prospect; Co, 

I, 20th and 2d V. S. Infantry. 
Powers, Edward P,, iS lugalls; Co. K. 

I2tli I'. S. Infantrv. 
Preble. Campbell C. 40 Cutler; Co. C, 

(;th Mass.. U.S.W 
Prendergast, .\nthony, 49 Park; Co. G. 

(;th 'Mass., U.S.V. 
Prendiville, Patrick L. Hotel \'ernon ; 

Co. (i. ()th Mass.". U.S.N". 
Pm-inton. .\. L.. ( )liye .\ve. ; Artificer. 

Co. H. 2(1 .Mass.. U.S.\'. 
(Juilty. James 1-".. 17 Bancroft; Co. H, 

2(1 Alass. X'olunteers. 
(Juirk. James J.. 13 Thomas; Co. C, 

9th U. S. Infantry. 



SPANISH WAR VKTEKAXS. 



321 



Reinbold, Albert J., 15 Newbury; Co. 
A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Renaud, Louis A.. \\'nrc ; 12th V. S. 
Infantry. 

Rice, William \\"., Charlton City; Co. 
A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Reidy, Dennis D., 684 Cambridge ; Co. 
G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 

Rix, George E.. 7 Sturgis ; Co. C, 2d 
Mass., U.S.V. 

Rogers, S. Walter, Holden ; Co. F, 6th 
Mass., U.S.V. 

Russell, Walter M.,37 Catharine; Hos- 
pital Steward, U. S. Navy. 

Ryan, Paul J., 64 Parker; Battery C, 
2d U. S. Artillery. 

Sawyer, Elbridge B., 63 King; Ser- 
geant, Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Scott, Albert B., 515 Main; Corporal, 
Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Seibert, John \V.; Co. G, 8th U. S. In- 
fantry. 

Shea, Michael J., 8 Harrison ; Co. I, 
1 2th U S. Infantry. 

Shea, Dr. P. O., 183 Green ; First Lieu- 
tenant and Asst. Surgeon, tjtli 
Mass., U.S.V. 

Shumway, Edwin R., 10 Hollywood ; 
Lieut. -colonel, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Skerrett, Nicholas J., 10 Meade; Musi- 
cian, Co. G, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 

Sleeper, Charles F., 15 Syhan ; Co. H, 
2d Mass., U.S.V. ' 

Smith, Clarence E., 243 Stafford; O.M. 
Sergeant, Co. H, 2d Mass., U.S.\'. 

Smith, Dr. J. A., 476 Main ; Co. K, 21st 
U. S. Infantry. 

Spenser, John J., 130 Washington ; Co. 
L, I2th U. S. Infantry. 

Standish, Lewis O., 29 \\'infield: Cc.. 
A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Standish, William G., Belmont-Locust 
Aye.; Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Stearns, E. A., 1381 Main; Co. C, 2d 
Mass., U.S.\'. 

Stebbins, George W., 10 Lancaster ; 
Q. M. Sergeant, Co. C, 2d Mass., 
U.S.V. 

Steyenson, John, 19 Jefferson: 2d U. S. 
Heavy Artillery. 

Sullivan, David J., 151 Summer; Cor- 
poral, Battery K, 3d L'. S. Artil- 
lery. 

Sullivan, Michael J., 25 Assonet ; 12th 
U. S. Infantry. 

Sullivan, Patrick J., 6 Merrifield ; 
Artificer, Co. G, 9th Mass , U.S.V. 



Sullivan, Peter F., 279 Grafton; Musi- 
cian, 9th Mass., U.S.V. 

Sweeney, Thomas M., 18 .\ssonet ; 

1 2th U. S. Infantry. 
Taft, Robert, 36 Irving; Co. C, 2d 
Mass., U.S.\'. 

Tisdell, Moses II.. t,^ X'ernon ; JMrst 
Lieutenant, Co. .\, 2(1 Mass., 
U.S.V. 

Todd, James E. L., 17 \'ine; Co. C, 2d 
:\ra,ss., U.S.V. 

Tolson, Harry W'.. i8j Russell; Co. L. 
6th Mas.s'., U. S. \'. 

Traver, W. A., i Ashton ; Musician, 
Co. A. 2d -Mass., U.S.V. 

Turner, William T.. 4 Chelsea; Co. A, 
2(1 Ma.ss., U.S.V. 

Vaughn, Frank L., 148 Highland; Ser- 
geant. Co. H. 2d Mass", U.S.W 

\"inton, Fred F,., rear 2- W . I'xiylston; 
Corporal, Co. L. 13th I'. S. In- 
fantry. 

Vosburg, Edgar II., m I'.elmont ; Co. 
H,"2d Mass., C.S.V. 

Walker, Fred C, 96 Maywood; Bat- 
tery B, 2d L'. S. Artillery. 

Wallace, Samuel A., 53 Pleasant ; Co. 
A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Ware, John C, 21 Florence; Co. H, 
2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Warren, Herbert H., 12 Columbus; 
Second Lieutenant, Co. C, 2d 
Mass., U.S.V. 

Wheeler, Dr. Aurelius F., Knovvles 
Building; Co. C. 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

White, Peter N., 608 Park Ave.; Co. 
A, 2d Mass., U.S.A. 

Whitman, Albert F., Chester, corner 
Grove; Co. H, 12th U. S. Infantry. 

Wilmot, J. L.. 40 Dewey; Corporal, 
Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Witham. Charles L., Boston Journal; 
Co. L, 26th U.S.V. Infantry. 

W(«)(I. .Arthur. 4 Orchard; ist Conn., 
I'.S.W 

Young, Harry C, 19^ Park Ave.; Ser- 
geant. Co. H, 2d'^Mass.. U.S.V. 

Young, W'illiam S.. 2^ Lincoln ; Co. A, 
2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Zaeder, Emil, 176 Lincoin ; Co. C. 2d 
Mass., U.S.V. 

Veterans voted in but not mustered : 

Bartlett, Lyman H., 55 Elm ; Co. C, 

2d Mass., U.S.^^. 
Barton, Charles A.. 6 Shawnuit ; Co. 

A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 



322 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



Chatelain, Edmond C, Worcester; Co. 

I. 26th U.S.V. 
Coates, Herbert A., Hotel Albanv ; Co. 

H, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
Cornwell. William G., Norwich, Ct. ; 

Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
DeMuth, John, Hotel Kenmore ; Co. 

K, ist So. Dakota, U.S.V.; 44th 

Company, Coast Artillery. 
Gray, Harry T., 28 Oxford ; Second 

Lientenant, Co. H,2d Mass.. U. S.\'. 
Hig^inbotham, Charles S., Ansonia; 

'Co. A, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 
Holbrook, J. Warren, 18 Burncoat ; 

Serq-eant, Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 



Lindsev. Joseph T., 18 Summer; Co. 
H,'2d" Mass., U.S.V. 

Porter, Leverett W., U.S.A., Wor- 
cester; 5th Alass., U.S.V. 

Powers, Richard H., 140 Exchange; 
Co. (J, yth Mass., U.S.V. 

Rheutan, Wintield D., Richmond, Va. ; 
Co. C, 2d Mass., U.S.V. 

Riordan, Martin, 6 Berkley ; First Ser- 
geant, Co. K, 12th U. S. Infantry. 

Vezina, Alex, 33 Lamartine; Co. L, 
1 2th U. S. Infantry. 

\\'illiams, C. G., iS Orient: Sergeant, 
15th U. S. Infantry. 



Early in the command of Daniel E. Denny 
of Post 10. he set about trying to secure for 
memorial purposes one of the Spanish guns de- 
livered into American hands at the surrender 
of Santiago. Assisted in this direction by the 
late Senator George F. Hoar and by Gov. John 
L. Bates, he succeeded, and in the early autumn 
of 1904 the gun arrived. 

It is of bronze. 11 i feet long, bore 6j inches, 
and was cast in Sevilla, Spain, May 5, 1798. 
Conspicuous upon the gun, near the breech, is 
an elaborate monogram, surmounted by a 
royal crown; the letters C. A. R. O. evidently 



indicate Charles IV. who was King of Spain 
in 1798. 

It stands in the triangular plot of land in front 
of the Armory, given by the Hon. Stephen 
Salisbury; the granite carriage, given by Geo. 
D. Webb, is from designs by Stephen C. Earle 
and George T. Tribe; the trucking essential to 
its placing was donated by Horace F. Ball; the 
wire fence about the plot was given by the 
Spencer Wire Company. 

It was given in the care and keeping of the 
city, December 9, 1904, with a great camp-fire 
in the Armorv. 




BY Citizens of Wobce 
RGE H. Ward Post io. 



. SURRENDERI 

THE Auspice 



323 



INDEX. 



(This index includes all names in the text, except the alphabetical list ot Spanish War Veterans, 
those of members of the Emmet Auxiliary and of the participants in the Oval hall game.) 



Abbott, H. B. 71, 78, So. 

Adams, H. H. 87, 126, 46, 47. 

Adams, \V. G. 162, 72, 98, 204, 15, 17. 

Ahern, T. J. 245, 83, g7, 99. 

-Ahlin, J. D. vide Allen. 

.•\ldrich, O. T. log, 46, 47. 

Alexandria, 20. 

Alger, Camp R. A. 243. 

Alger, Secretary, 132: his card, 133. 

.•\llegheny. Transport, 272. 73. 75, 91. 

Allen, Capt. F. L. 5, 34, 38. 70, 82, 87, 92, 100, 

01. 08, 17, 24, 3=,. 37, 46, 47, 73. 
Allen (.\hlin), J. D. 176, 215, 17. 
Allen, J. H. 87, 137, 46, 47, 60. 
Allen, Walter, 283, 95, 300. 
.•\llen, Wilson, 162. 
.•Mligators, 173, -7. 
.\llison, G. E. 12, 47, 60. 78, 80. 
Allison, R. L. 10, 12. 14, 46, 60, 78, 80. 
Allison, W. H. 12. ^4. 6a, 71, 78. 80. 
Amell, H. C. 162. 76. 21:;, 17. 
Ames, H. H. 160, 68. 
Ames. M. F. 160, 62, 203. 11, 13, 16. 
Anderson, J. F. 157. 
Andrew, Geo. J. A. 224. 
.\ngkim, Capt. D. F. 4, 260. 
Armory, State, 8. 
Articles of War read. 15. 
Athv, Andrew, 219, 20. 
At Present, Co. A. 78: Co. C, 146; Co. H. 215: 

Co. G. 297. 
Austin, H. E. 12, 13. 
Bachelor, W. O. 162, 6;, 94, 21s, 17. 
Baker, David J. 7. 
Baldwin, H. W. 233. 
Ball, H, F. V'2. 
Ballou, H. A. 12, 51. 78, 80. 
Baltimore. 20, 92, 
Band, Battery B, 11, 74. 
Bankbill Joke, 169, 
Banks, Geo. N. P. 223. 
Barbed-wire defense, 262, 
Barber. The Company, 175. 
Barber, G. D. 160, 206. 
Barker, E. R. 6, 233, 64, 97, 99. 
Barnard, E. M. 87. 
Barnard. Sumner & Putnam Co. 173. 
Barrett. Capt. Edwin G. 5, 7. 8, 10. 12, tj, 16, 

18, 19, 21, 25, 26, 34, 36, 41.43.45,46,53. 

58, 59. 60, 65, 67, 68, 70, 72, 78, 80, 134, 

69, 269. 
Barrett, J. A. 215. 17. 
Barrett. Jas. M. 233, go. 97, 99. 
Barrett, T. J. 279. 308. 
Barrett. Telegram to Mrs. 68. 
Bartlett, Chas. W. 5. 
Bartlett. Halleck. 6, 62, loi , 30, 31 , 32. 270, 308, 

09, ID, 12. 



Bartlett, l.vnian, 124, 30, 35, \-, 46, 47. 

Bartlett. Wm. H. 287. 

Barton. Clara, 58, 128. 

Barton. Chas. .■\. 12, 51, 78, 80. 

Barton, Wm, E. 5. 87, 112, 17, 27. 28. 35, 46, 

47- 73. 
Baseball at the Oval, 311. 
Bassett. .\. J. 310. 
Batliing by rubber blanket, 41. 
Bathing incident, 167. 
Bates, Geo, J. L. 322. 
Battery B. 4, 286. 
Baudett, W, A. 162. 
Beans counted. 41. 
Beaudoin, vide Boardman. 
Bedloe's Island, 18. 
Beiune. G. H. 87, 125, 46, 47. 
Benchley, Lieut. E. N. 5, 105, 17, 27, 40, 42, 

^59. 313. 
Bennett, Geo. E. 126, 46, 47. 
Bennett, P. H. 283, 96, 300. 
Berger. A. A. 160. 
Bergeron. Jos. A. 12. 
Bieberbach. Jacob. 12. 
Biersdorf, .\. G. 135, 37, 46, 47. 
Bigelow, Lieut. C. F. 133. 
Bigelow, Opinions of Capt. John. Jr. 40. 170, 

71.83. 
Birthday of the "Wellingtons," 161. 
Black powder, 46. 
Blockhouse, Santiago Harbor, 263. 
Bloody Bend. 48, 117. 
Blouse, Tlie Cajjtain's, 5g. 
Blue and Gray blend, 173. 
Boardman. J. H. 12. 43. 75. 76, 77,80. 
Bogan. Col. F. B. 237, 40, 54, 57. 
Boland, Mrs. T. B. F. 310. 
Bond. Wm. M. 162. 2i6. 17. 
Bonney, Carl. 6, 308, 
Bonsai, Stephen, on night march of the Second 

Regiment, 11^. 
Booden, W. J. 226. 
Boutwell. Gov. Geo. S. 220. 
Bowen. Capt. Geo. 7. 
Bowen, Surgeon. 63. 
Bowers. P. R. 157. 
Boxes. Coming of Worcester, lOO. 
Bovd. H. E. 160. 
Bradley. J. F. 87. 135- 37. 46. 47. 
Bradv. Edward. 233. 
Br.adshaw, M. F. 283. 98. 300. 
Bradshaw, P. J. 231. 
Brass. Wesley S. 23. 
Breakfast in Washington, 20, 93. 167. 
Brewer & Co. 312. 
Briggs, E. A. 87, 135- 46. 47- 
Briggs. Gov. Geo. N. 85. 
Brigham. D. E. 160. 62, 84, 204. 15, 16. 



324 



WORCESTER IN THE SPANISH WAR. 



Brigham, I. A. 88, in, 25, Jil, 46, 47. 

Brigham, R. H. 73. 78, 80. 

Brophy, M. C. 233, 83, 97, 99. 

Brosnan, Elizabeth, 248. 

Brosnan, Geo. W. 2,\^. 35, 49, 64, 89, 91. 

Brown, C. A. 88, 146, 47. 

Brule Philemon, ii, 78, 80. 

Brusky, J. T. 4J, 78, 80. 

Bruso, Wm. T. ?o, 34, 51, 78, 80. 

Bryan, R. B. 5. 

Bryant, Dana A. 162. 

Bryson, G. S. 160. 

Buck, Chas. E. 162, 99, 20S, 17. 

Buckley, Thos. H. 248. 

Buckman, C. T. 157. 

"Bug Chaser," 35. 

Burbank, Chas. E. 159, 64. 

Burbank, D. E, 231. 

Burkhardt, Walter, 12. 

Burial of Rough Riders, 39. 

Burke, D. J. 2T,:>,. 4s, 46, 69, 97, 99. 

Burns, R. M. 226. 

Burns, T. J. 233, 37, 97, gg. 

Burr, Geo. E. 212. 

Burr, Mrs. Mary H. 309. 

"Busy Bees," 100. 

Butler, Gen, B. F. 222. 

Butler, C. E. 87, 106, 46, 47. 

Butler, Geo. C. 146, 47. 

Butler, Mav, 305. 

Butler, W. H. 88, 122, 35. ,^7. 46, 47- 

Buzzacott Outfit, 69. 

Cafferty, Jas. H. 310. 

Calf and hound incident, 98. 

Call for troops, 9. 

Callahan, Frank, 23;^. 

Callahan Bros. 281. 

Camp (Co. A) before Santiago, 59. 

Camp of the Ninth in Cuba, 2yT,. 

Camp of the Second, 195. 

Camp Massachusetts, 21. 

Campbell, B. F. 233. 

Canteens filled, 47. 

Capron. Body of Capt. 40. 

Capron's Battery, 44. 47, 113, 15, 87. 

Carberry, J. M. 283, 85, 98, 300. 

Cardin. Wm. E. 12, 76. 78, 80. 

Carey, J. F. 283, 98, 300. 

Carey. M. 226, 44. 

Carroll, J. F. 283, 98, 300. 

Carroll, M. W. 226. 

Carrying rations, 183. 

Casey, J. A. G. 2:^;^, 61, 90, 97, 98. 

Casey, J. E. 233. 46, 47, 57, 59, 64, 95. 98. 

Casey, J. J. 226. 

Casey, Thos. F. 283. 86, 98. ,W0. 

Casey, Wm. F. 233, 42. 74, 90, 97, 98. 

Casey, Lieut. Wm. J. 254. 

Cat overboard, 180. 

Cathedral in Santiago, 315. 

Chamberlain, Gen. R. H. 7, 229. 

Chamberlain, W. H. 242. 

Chapman. .Xlderman, 151. 

Cherry Hill, 20. 

Chapin, H. T. rig, 46. 47. 

Christenson. E. A. 22, 74, 78, 80. 

Citv Guards, 7, 13. 

ClaHin, C, H. 160, 168. 

Clapp, S. E. 5. 12. 34. 42. 5-'. 74. 78. 80. 

Clark, Earle E. 162. 203, 09, 10, 17. 

Clark. Col. E. P. 18, 20, 21, 3.3. 38, 41. Si, 62, 
85, 109, 15, 40, 59, 67, Cg, 73, 86, go. 95. 



Clark, Lieut. F. M. Jr. 87, 131, 56, 57. 

Clarke, Julius L. 7. 

Clarkson, F. H. 135, 37, 46, 47. 

Cleveland, Capt. Geo. H. 7. 

Cloys. W. O. 166. 

Coan, John J. 229. 

Coat incident, 183. 

Coates, H. .\. 162. 63. 76, 203, 16, 17. 

Cobb, Corp. Edward, 34. 

Coburn, J. J. 87. 

Cocoanuts, 183. 

Coffee, J. M. 282, 83, 89, 92, 300. 

Cofifee grinder incident, 26g. 

Coffee story, 1 10. 

Colbert, Rev. J. D. 235. 

Colburn, C. H. 87, in, 22. 35, 37, 46, 47. 

Cole, James .-X. 12. 73, 78, 81. 

Colcsworthy. F. E. 160, 162. 

Coley, H. G. 14. 7». 81. 

Collins, Wm. 305. 

Colored soldier shoots, 170. 

Colored soldiers, 46, 180. 

Comins, L E. 308. 

Conaty, Rev. Thos. 247. 

Concho, 25, 26. 29, 102, 77. 

Condy, Capt. Wm. ,\. 7. 

Conklin, Capt. Geo. B. 7. 

Connelly, F. H. 283, 8g, 98, 300. 

Connelly, Jas. 233. 36, 46. 

Connolly, J. F. 226, 97, 99. 

Conrad,' Dr. A. Z. 287. 

Conroy, M. H. 283. 98, 300. 

Converse, Col. H. E. 233, 52. 

Cook, C. E. 162. 84, 203, 16, 17. 

Coolness under fire, 190. 

Cooper, Benj. 12, 14, 78, 81. 

Corbett, Capt. Jas. 225. 

Corbett, P. J. 226. 

Corbin, George, 282, 87. 

Corcoran, C. S. 233. 36, 89, 97, 99- 

Corliss, J. J. 6, 228, 33, 36, 37. .39. 4-', 46. 47. 
48, 82, 84, 97. 98. 

Cornwell, Wm. G. 12. 14, 49, 54, 78, 81. 

"Couchee," 232. 34. 36, 41, 48, 49, 63, 77, 80. 

Cove, Mary. 305. 

Cow and sentinel, 173. 

"Crab Hollow," 35, 36. 

Crabs and tarantulas, 185, 191. 

Crab stories, 108. 

Crandall, H. M. 157. 

Crazy man at sea, 205. 

Creaven. J. J. 233. 36, 60, 66. 82, 89, 94, 99. 

Cronin, D. E. 283, g8, 300. 

Cronin, Marcus D. 5. 

Crooker, L. E. 118, 20, 37. 46, 47- 

Grossman, F. E. 88, 135, 37, 46, 47- 

Cruikshank, J. T. 12, 51, 78. 80. 

Commissions given, Co. A. 16; Co. C, 91: Co. 
H, 165; Co. G, 240. 

Cuban beauties, 124: camps, 185; fruit, 35: 
patriots, 39; rains, 121: suffering, 35; 
vegetation, 200: war views, 56; woman 
at fountain, 122. 

Cubans and the tomatoes, 195. 

Cubans at ease, 183. 

Cummings, W. B. 160. 

Cunningham, James, 231. 

Curtis, .Albert, 83. 

Dai(iuiri. 33. 106, 181. 

Dalton, .\djutant-general, gi. 

Dalv, D. C. 226. 

Daly, Capt. Wm. 224. 225. 



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Daly. Will. W. J2(,. 

Daiul, Tlidinas R. 12. 

Darling, F. \V. 160. 

Davis, C. T. 157. 

Davis. Luke. 71. 

Davis. O. W. 22. 24, 78, 81. 

Davis. Richard Harding, 171, 89. 

Deacon, Win. C. 157. 

Dead in Co. A, 77; Co. C, 136: Co. 11. 20X: 

Co. G, 288. 
Dean. F. P. 6, 88. 103, 14, 16, 18, 20, .55. 40, 

41, 46. 47. /«• 
Deaths at sea. 67, 20.?. 
Death begins. 58. 

Degnan. C. J. 2M. 36. 42. 46. Sg. 97, 98. 
Delahanty, Dr. W. J. 279. 303. 
Delaney, .Anna M. 281, 306. 
Delaney, May E. 306. 
Delaney. Rev. M. 237. 
Delaney. M. J. 233, 36, 46, 97. 99. 
DeMarco, Jos. 175, 81. 90, 204, 16. 17. 
Dennis, W. G. 87, 135. 37. 46, 47. 
Denny, Daniel E. 316. 22. 
Departure of Co. A. 10. 17, 29; Co. C, 87, 105: 

Co, G, 231; Co. H, 161, 
Desautelle, A. L. 283, 98, 300. 
Devens. Gen. Chas. 222. 
Devil, Raising the, 169. 
Devine, Surg, VV. H. 234. 48. ^4. 
Devlin, H. H. 160, 162. 
Diary, Co. C man, 119. 
Ditson. Chas. H. 194. 204, 16, 77, 
Dividing rations. 185. 
Dobbins, Paymaster H. E. 247, 54. 
Dodge, F. E. 1S7. 
Dodge, Karl H' 157, 

Dodge. Hon. R. B. 11. 15. 135, 229. 47. 87, .^og. 
Dogs in camp, 231. 
Doherty, Chas. I. 241. 
Doherty, F. W. 226. 
Dolan, Patrick, 233. 
Donnelly, 246. 

Donovan, Maj, \V, H. 234. 68. 
Don Quixote and his Rosinante. 64. 
Doran, F. H. 233, 67, 81, go, 97, 98, 
Dorman, P. 226. 
Downey, Daniel, 231. 
Downey, Mrs, Daniel, 310. 
Dowse, R. H, 87, 122, 24. 25. i.O. W- 47- 
Doyle, A. F. 226. 
Doyle, D, J. 233, 72, 97, 99. 
Doyle. F. P. 233, 36, 37, 60, 65, 97, 99. 
Drabble, Geo. J. 157. 
Drill-shed at Armory, 84. 
Drum, Capt. John, 259, 73. 
Drury, E. F. 125, 31, 3^. 38. 47. 
Drv Tortugas, 31. 
Du'fault. Dr. P. C. \V. ^lo. 
Dufficld, Gen. H. M. 250. 
Dnggan. J. F. 226. 
Duncan & Goodell, 312. 
Duncan incident. Capt. 285. 
Dunn-Loring. 240. 43. 84. 
Dyon. Maj. M. R. 287. 
Earle, Ralph. 5. 
Earle, S. C. 322. 
Earle, W. H. 160, 68. 
Early, Lieut. James. 231, 301, 
Easton, F. A. 312. 
Eaton, Capt. Edwin, 7, 
Eaton, \V. B. 310. 
Eddy, W. \V, 88, 118, 46, 47. 



Edmonds, Lieut. 75. 

Eighth Regiment departs, 237. 

El Caney, 44, 45, 53. 115, 19, 87, 89. 

El Caney to Santiago, 196. 

El Caney Views, 56, I20, 88, 92. 

Eldridgc, C, T. 5, 87, 90, 120, 35, 46. 47. 

El Poso, 43, S7, 116. 

Emmet Guards, 54: story of. 219: volunteer, 227: 
leave Worcester, 229, 30; in Camp Dewey, 
232; leave South Framingham. 240: pass 
through Worcester, 241 ; in Pittsfield, 241 : 
reach Washington, 243; take a spin, 246; 
receive pay, 247: march to the Potomac, 
250; receive gifts, 251 : leave Camp .-Mger, 
251: Sunday episode, 255; reacli Cuba, 
256; at Santia.go, 265: secure supplies, 270: 
leave Cuba, 272; leave Montauk, 279: 
home coming. 279: mustered out, 287. 

"Emmet" Au.xiliary, 250; members of, 307. 

"Emmet" ITonoraries, 240, 301, 

"Emmet" recruits, 282. 

English. John. 34. 

Entrenching. 50. 

Fagerstrom. O. L. 170. 216, 17. 

Fairbanks, F. L. T2, 30, 44, 66, 74, 78, 81. 

Fairbanks, Maj. H. B. 11. 20, 37. 47, 86, 92, 
95, 100, 14, ^i. ?4. 40, 61. 6t, 69, 206, 
6g, 86, ' ■ 

Fairbanks, W. E. C. 87. 

Falardeau, Henry A. 157. 

Falardeau, Leo C. 157. 

Fallon. Dr. M. F. 179, 293, 

Farewells and furloughs, 74. 

Farley, Annie, 281. 

Farmer, Allie L, 162, 20g, 210, 217. 

Farnsworth, Calvin, 309. 

Farrell, John, 233. 45. 97. 99. 

Farrow, G. S. 87, 90, 122. 35, 37, 46, 47, 57. 

F'ather and son incident, 165. 

Fav. H. R. 4?. -6. "8, 80. 

Fay. L. M. 76. 77. 81. 

Fayettcville. 20. 

Feelian. Madge, 305, 

Feet inspection, 178. 

Fennesy, J. G. 234. 

Fenwick Hall, 219, 222. 

Fischer. Chas. A. 12, 23. 42, 45, 50., 66, 74, 
78, 81. 

Fish. Lieut. E. B. 29, i.s8, 59, 60, 62, 65. 72, 
83. 93, 200, 03, 15, 16. 

Fish, Body of Hamilton, 40. 

Fisher. Frank L. 157. 

Fishing incident. Lake Parker, 96. 

Fitzgerald, Father, 62. 

Fitzgerald, Hon. J. F. 239. 40, 44. 47, 49. 50. 
5-'. 77. 78. 

Fitzgerald. John F. 301. 

Fitzgerald. J. J. 233, 36, 72, 97, 99. 

Fitzgerald. .Mary E. 305. 

Fitzjiatrick, J. E. 264. 97. 99, 

Flag incident, Daiquiri, 33. 181. 

Flag of truce. 50. 

Fleming, P. J. 283, 84. 98, 300. 

Fletcher, C, T. 87, 114. 31. 35- 37. 46. 47- 

Fletcher. Mayor E. F. 151, 

Flint, Chas. j. 162, 86, 216. 17. 

Flint, Leroy J. 157. 

Florence, 20. 

Florida nights, 97; rains. 175. 

Flynn, J. H. 135. 37, 46, 47. 

Flynn, U. J. 233. 49, 72, 97. 99, 

Fogertv, J. E. 281, 97, 99. 



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Foley, Harrv, 30s. 

Foley. H. P. 226, 44. 

Foley, T. F. 233. 46. 

Foley, Dr. T. J. 269, 75, lb, TJ . 70. ,?03. 

Foley. Thos. 283, 98. 300. 

"Fool Captain," 105. 

Forest, Geo. L. 12, 74. 75. 76. 77. 81. 

Forrest, Frank. 2},},. 97. 99. 

Fort on Santiago road. 191. 

Fortier, Q. E. 67. 78. 81. 

Fredericksburg, 20. 

Fresh beef. 58, 198, 

Fresh bread. 58. 

Fruit, not healthful, 121. 

Fry, Capt. Jos, 199. 

Fuller. C. M, 182, 216, 17. 

Gage, A. C. 88. 

Gage, W. I. 88, 129, ii. 46, 47- 

Gagnon, F, C. 30, 78. 80. 

Gagnon, T. H. 216, 17, 

Gale, F, E. 51, 78, 81. 

Gale, G. H. G. 5- 

Gale. L. H. 160. 

Gallagher. -M. M. 226. 

Gardner, Daniel. 2},},. 47. 65. 97. 99. 

Gardner. Geo. H.J. 221. 2},. 

Gardner, R. F. 5. 

Garrett, Michael F. 2},^, 97, 99. 

Garon, Rev. A. S. 308. 

Gates. Asst. Sec, 63, 122. 

Gazette. Worcester, 6, 132. 261. 

Gendron, Jos, S. 162, 83, 216, 17. 

Gilchrist, J. J. 233, 97, 99. 

Gilman, Lieut. W. F. 86, 128, 31, },2. },y. 

Gilmore, Geo. C. 173, 82, 216, 17, 80. 

Gilmore, John H, 216, 17. 

Gilmore, Wni. F. 297, 99. 

Gleason, O. J. W. 88, 119, 26. 46. 47. 

Gleason. Willis, 6, 162, 83, 90, 204, 16, 17. 

Gleason and Mower prepare supper, 195. 

Glixman, L. B. 102. 46, 47. 

Goggin, David, 301, 02. 

Going home, 62. 

Goodlnie, Capt. John M. 7. 

Goodnow, G. A. 160. 

Goodwin, Mrs. Wm. 505. 

Gould, A. W. 162. 

Gowans, J. G. 14. 47, 78. 80. 

Grady. J. J. 226. 

Grady. Maj. F. J. 234, 68, 1^. 

Graham, Gen'l W. M. 246. 

Gray, Lieut. H. T. 158, 60, 62. 68. 69. 72. 73. 

200. 01, 15. 16. 
Green, E. H. 162, 201. 
Green, John T. 233, 98. 
Green. R. C. 15. 30. 78, 81. 
Green, R. M. 160. 
Green, Wm. 162. 
Green, Wm. C. 211, 13, 17. 
Greene, Harry H. 157. 
Greene, H. J. 5, 87, 109. 2-.. 46, 47. 
Greenhalge, Gov. F. T. 159. 
Griffin, Henry, 233, 44, 60, 97, 99. 
Griflin, John J. 234. 
Griffin. Rev. Thos. 229. 
Grime's Battery, 117. 
Grogan. J. A. 226. 
Grogan. M. J. 265. 97, 99. 
Grout. Chas. H. 310. 
Grover, H. C. 6. 36. ■/},. 79. 81. 167. 
Guild. Lt. Gov. Curtis. 151, 
Guinea hen incident. 197. 



Gully. M. J. 297, 99. 
Gunnison, Rev. Alnion, 11. 
"Gus's" mule, 123. 
Hackett. E. F. 267. 97, 99. 
Hackett. M. A. 226. 
Hagberg, J. G. 30, 49, 78, 80. 
Haggerty, S. F. 283, 84, 98, 300. 
Haile, Lieut. Gov. 132, 35. 
Hakanson. F. H. 162, 63, 73. 201, 09, t},, 17. 
Hale, Chas. S. 310, 
Hale, F. C. iii, 25, 31, 46, 47. 
Hall, Ernest B. 12, 22, 45. 52. 60. 79. 81. 
Hall, John, 157. 
Halpin J. H. 235. 
Ham, H. H. 87. 
Hammond, Maj. F. H. 251. 
Hammond, J. H. 49, 69, 79, 81. 
Hampton Roads, 253. 
Harford, Fred'k A, 157, 
Harris, Mrs. H. F. 310. 
Harrison, W. H. 7. 
Hartwell, Hattie, 281. 
"Harvard" entered, 253; incident. 260. 
Hassam. Lieut. W. E. 159. 60, 64, 65, 66, 206. 
Hastings, H. L. 87, 157. 
Hats at the surrender, 63. 
Havener. Mahlon E. 157. 
Hawkins, Paul R. 86, 129, 77, 95. 
Haye, C. M. 160, 62, 63, 213, 14, 16. 
Hays, Fred, R. 12, 15, 22, 40, 79, 81. 
Hayward, .\. L. 12, 49, 57, 71, 79, 81, 
Healy, M, J. 273, 89, 92, 99. 
Healy, Lieut. M. J. 283. 
Healy, Richard, 277, 301. 
Heffern, Abbie L 305. 
Heffern, Mrs. Mary, 305. 
Helmie, Lt. Eli, 259. 
Help wanted. 38. 
Henderson, R. E. in, 46. 47. 
Henry, Paul, 301. 
Henson, Melvin \. 157. 
Hewett, Geo, F. 312. 
Hewett, Walter R, 157. 
Heywood, John G. 310. 
Hickey, Capt. Wm. 231. 
Higginbotham, C. S. 58, 73. 79. 81. 
Hill, F. M. 160, 62, 70, 21O, 17. 
Hill, G, E, 160. 

Hill, Geo, H. 85, 87, 91. 98, 131-35. 37. 46, 47- 
Hinchley, Wm, A. 12. 
Hinckley, L. C. 12. 
Hines M. E. 226, z^. ii, },\. 
Hinkel, F. R. 162. 
Hissing incident, 264. 
Hitchcock, Asst. Surg. 63, 127. 
Hoar, Hon. Geo. F. 132, 278, .^03, 12. 22. 
Hoar, M. L. 261, 97, 99. 
Hobbs, Capt, Geo. 7, 220. 
Hobbs, Horace K, 12, 42, 45, 47, 78, 80, 151. 
Hobson, Lieut. 67, 193. 
Hobson's exchange. Scene ot, 268. 
Hodgins, G. W. 162, 63, 83, 203, 13, 17, 
Holbrook. J. W. 87, 114. 20. 46. 47. 
Holden. Capt. Chas. S. 5, 158. 60. 61. 62. 63. 
68, 69, T2, y7. 85. 89. 91. 95. -00. 05, 16. 
Holden Rifles. 224. 
Holmes. Jas. P. 2^t,. 
Holton. Chas. E. 157. 
Homesickness, 58. 
Homeland sighted, 68, 130. 
Honker, Walter F. 162, 70. 204. 16, 17. 
Hopkins, Col. VV. S. B. 287. 



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Hiiran. J. F. 2,?,?, 36, 46, 60, 81. 8g, 93. y8. 

Horan, JNI. J. 2.3,3. ,?5. ,i6. 40. 46, 48, 9;. g8. 

Horan, "Tim." 236. 

Horses unloaded. .^7. 

Hospital. 58. 63. 108. 

Houlihan. P. F. 226. 

Hoyt. Chaplain, 245. 

Hovt, John I. 157. 

Hubbard, Chas.'P. 162. 

Hubbard. Geo. W. 71. 133, 201. 03, 310. 

Hughs, John J. 225. 

Humes. W. J. 125, 46, 47. 

Hurley, Lieut. J. F. 6, 218. 26. 28. .33. ,34. 48. 

59. 97. 98. 301. 
Hurley, Mrs. J. F. 304. 
Hurley, T. J. 283. 85, 98, .300. 
Illinois, The 7th, 243. 45. 51. 
Irish stew, 266. 
"Iron bells," 43. 
Israel. Simon. 58, 69. 74, 79. 81. 
Jackson, Gilbert S. 157. 
Jackson, W. Hubert 249. 
Jackson Guards, 219, 20. 23. 
Jefferson, F. R. 204, 16, 17. 
Jefferson, G. N. 160. 68. 
"Jennie." the burro. 64. 
Jersey City, 18. 

"Johnny" marchini; homo, 74. 135. 
Johnson, Albert, 51. 79. 81. 
Johnson, Roland, 87, 94, 146, 47. 57. 
Johnson, W. R. 22, 79, 81. 
Jones, C. A. 160. 
Jones, George, 12. 
Jones, Geo. T. 87, 129. 46. 47. 
Jones, L. S. 160. 62, 81, 90, 204, 15. lO. 
Jordan, F. B. 6, 45, 160, 62, 78, 86, 94. 95, 215. 

16. 
Joyce. F. E. 233. 97, 99. 
Judge. P. J. 307. 
June 17 in Camp Alger. 249. 
Keane, M. A. 257, 83. 84, 85, 98, 300. 
Keegan. J. F. 281. 89, 94, 99. 
Keevan, T. F. 212, 17. 

Kellaher. T. F. 233. 44. §3. 84- 85. 98. ,300. 
Kelleher. T. J. 264. 83. .300. 
Kelley. Bertha. 246. 
Kelley. Dr. J. H. 279, 80. 82. 
Kelley, Adjt. J. J. 234. 54. 
Kelley. Jos. P. 287. 
Kelley, T. B. 260. 83, 8i, 98, 300. 
Kelley, T. F. 284. 
Kellogg. Lt. Col. E. R. 258. 
Kennedy. John A. 2;^^^. 
Kenney. Chas. E. 23,^. 97. 99. 
Kennedy. U. J. 283. 96. ,300. 
Kent. Gen'l J. F. 259. 
Kessell. Robert, 75. 279. 
Kimball. A. D. 6. 162, 84. 91. 201. 10. 17. 
Kincaid. R. W. 87. 90. 122. 30. 46. 47. 
King, Lieut. A. C. 5. 82, 87, 91, 99, 103, 08. 09. 

20. 22. 23, 28, 30, 31, 38, 42. 47. 
King. J. C. 88. 136. 39, 47. 
King. Jas. F. 233. 36. 42. 97. 98. 
King. J. L. 160. 62. 66. 73. 98. 215. 16. 
King. J. W. 162. 216. 17. 
King. Capt. W. H. 7- 
King, Wni. H. 162. 86, 215. 16. 
Kingdon, Fred. 160. 
Kinney. C. F. 160. 
Kissing girls. 167. 
Kitchner. Lt. D. W. 287. 
Khaki measurements. 60. 



Knapp. Rlioda L. 307. 

Knibbs, C. H. 87, "118. 46. 47. 

Knickerbocker. 29. 31, 32, 33, 103, 05, 78. 

Knight. Austin M. 5. 

Krebs. F. H., Jr. 162, 70, go, 93, 216, 17. 

Ladies' Auxiliary to the Emmets, 304. 

Lallamme, Jos. T. 5. 12. 43. 47. 52. 60, 79. 81. 

Lakeland. 21. 95. 97, 169. 

Lakeland Views, 19. 27. 28. 104. 174. 

Lakeland woman with a gun, 100. 

Lamb, M. B. 6. 240. 79, 301, 02. 

Lamberton, Chas. F. 12. 15. 25.43, 47, 51, 79, 

81. 
Lamothe. Major. 33. 
Landing at Daiquiri. 33. 34. 106. 
LaPoint, A. C. 160. 
Larkin, John. 233. 36. 64. 67. 97. 99. 
Larkin, J. J. 257. 83. 98. 300. 
Larncr, J. F. 233, 48, 64. 97. 99. 
Las Guasamas, 36. i to. 84, 237. 
"Laura and Bessie," 66. 
Lavin. T. F. 2;^^. 42, 44. 66. 97, 98. 
Lawrence, E. VV. 162. 94, 216. 17. 
Lawton. General. 113. 99. 
Leary. Tim. 233. 246. 
Leaving Cuba. 65. 
Lee. Capt. Arthur H. 171. 
Legasey. John. 247. 
Le.gion Spanish War Veterans, 317. 
Lego. H. E. 162. 
Lemonade weak, 176. 
Lemons near. 177. 
Leonard. F. C. 2t,,^. 64. 97, 99. 
Leonard, W. M. 283. 85, 98. 300. 
Letter from a private, 128. 
Letter from a Worcester boy. 124. 
Lincoln. Capt. D. Waldo. 155. 
Lincoln. Francis M. 309. 
Lincoln, Capt. Geo. 85. 
Lincoln. Capt. John W. 83. 
Lincoln. Gov. Levi, 83. 
Lincoln. P. W. 87, 102. 24. 46, 47. 
Lincoln. Capt. W. S. 143 et sec;. 
Lindsey. Jos. T. 162, 75, 76, 204, 16. 17. 
Lindsey makes desks. 175. 
Light Infantry, 7, 83; in Camp Dewey, 88; 

Centennial. 149: marching to camp, 150: 

History, 152. 
Lightning bugs, 183. 
Locomotive fixed, 38. 
Loftus, J. J. 2ii. 97. 99. 
Logan. James, 132, 51. 52, 73, 239. 
Logan. Lt. Col. L. J. 234. 38, 47. 54. 67. 
Lohnes. R. A. 12. 
Long. Dr. 250. 
Long Bridge. 20. 167. 
Long Island Sound. 135. 
Longley, A. S. 87. 114. 31. 46. 47. 
Losiltires, Mount. 181. 
Love. Albert F. 162. 76. 204. 15. 16. 
Lovejoy, Chas. E. 162. 
Lowell, J. H. 12. 76, 79. 81. 
Lowell. Jas. Russell. 85. 
Liickc. Lieut. F. H. 12, 13. 16. 71. 73. 
Ludlow. General. 55. 57, 62, 70. 109, 15, 75. 
Lvnch. Mary, 305. 
Lyons. E. H. 23^. 59. 9". 99- 
McAdam. A. R. 212. 
McAleer. Dr. Geo. 6. 231. 79. .301, 04- 
Mc.Aulifife, T. J. 231, 303. 
McCaflferty, M. J. 223. 24. 
McCallum. L. M. 157- 



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McCann, J. E. 226. 

McCann. Lieut. Wm. E. 6, 53, 218, 77, 80, 82, 

90, 97, 98. 
McCartin. M. J. 233. 45. 57. 60, 63, 97, 98. 
McCarthy, Alicliael, Sr. 252. 
McCarthy, Michael, Jr. 236. 
McConville, M. S. 224, 25. 
McCormicls, Wm. H. li". 
McCurdy, A. 226. 
McCutcheon, H. J. 162. 
McDermott, Tho.s. 248. 
McDonald, John P. 281, 302. 
McGauley. Thos. F. 22^. 
McGillicuddy, Rev. D.' F. 227, 29, 77. 79, 87, 

303. 06. 
McGillicuddy, G. F. 272, 8^ 98, wo. 
McGillicuddy, Dr. J. T. 231, a. 83. 
McGourty, Alice G. 281, 307. 
McGourty, Dr. J. E. 277, 95. 
McGrath, J. J. 23^, 49, 63, 65, 97, 99. 
McGuire, Hugh, 233, 36, 59, 97, 99. 
MacKay, John C. 194, 204, 16, 17. 
McKeon, F. P. 231. 
McKenzie, Wm. R. 157. 
McKinley, President, 57. 
McKoan, Dr. J. W. 279, 303. 
McLaughlin, J. J. 210. 11. 17. 
McLoughlin. Peter, 245. 
McMahon, B. H. 279. 
McMah.m, E. J. 5. 
McMann. Chas. F. 273. 89, 92, gg. 
McManus, P. J. 240, 302. 
McNeil, Jas. E. 235. 
MacNevin, M. W. 184, 216, 17. 
McSvveeney, J. D. 2,^, 36. 44, 52, 8g, 91, 98. 
McTaggart, D. D. 12, 71. 
McTiernan, J. F. 233, 36, 82, 89, 94. 99. 
Magee, Arthur C. 12, 47. 51, 6g. 79, 81. 
Magurn, Surg. F. T.'L. 2^4, =;o, S4. 
Maher, M. J. 226. 
Maine, Ironclad, 9. 
Manhansett, steamer, 132. 
Map El Caney field. 45. 
Marble, Jerome & Co. 306. 
Marlow, M. F. 226. 
Marsh, John F. 62. 

Martin, E. J. 88, 117, 35, 37. 46, 47, 57. 
Martin, Geo. 128, 46, 47. 
Martin, H. J. 233. 39, 67, 97, gg. 
Martin, John J. 283, 98, 300. 
Martin, R. J. 51. 79, 81. 
Mascot, Co A, 64. 
Mayo, S. L 87, 124, 36. 39. 47. 
Mayers, F. R. 160, 

Maynard, F. B. 88, 117, ^o, 35, ,^7. 46, 47. 
Mechanics Hall, Reception in, 286. 
Melavcn, Maurice, 224. 
Mermaid adventure, 176. 
Mcrrifield, W. A. 87. 114. 33, 37, 46, 47. 
Merrimac, Steamer, 67, 270. 
Merritt, Chas. E. 157. 
Merritt, Harry, 18, 73. 
Michigan, The 33d, 243. 
Middlesex Post, No. 163, 17. 
Miles, General, 55, 132, 76. 
Milford priest, 93. 
Miller, Colonel, 103. 
Miller, Mrs. D. McT. 310. 
Mills, A. G. 15, 22, 23, 43, 47, 64, 79, 81. 
Mills, Geo. 162. 
Mills. H. N. 162. 



Miner. Dexter. 1S2, 204. i5. 17. 

Mirick, H. W..i62, 80, 216. 17. 

Mobile transport, 66, 67, 130, 202. 

Monahan, Ella A. 306. 

Monroe, C. E. 6, 160, 62, 68, 72. 78, 83, 87, gr, 

93, 200, 15, 16. 
Montauk, Co. A at, 79, 131: Co. C, 137; Co. 

H, 204; Co. G, 290. 
INIontauk committee, 302. 
Montauk Point, 68. 
Moody, Wm, E. 12, 14, -g. 81. 
Mooney. J. F. H. 229. 
Moore, John J. 180, 204. 10. 17. 
Moran, John M. 209, 10, 17. 
Morro Castle, Santiago, 278. 
Morse, Arthur S. 157. 
Morse, Wm. H. 12. 22. 59. 60, 7g. 81. 
Morton, Lake. 21. 
Moss beds, g7. 

Mower, H. A. 160, 62, 70, 72, 83, 204, 16. 17. 
iNIoynihan, D. J. 226. 46. 
Moynihan, F. J. 27g. 
IMoynihan, Capt. J. J. 6, 53, 218. 26, 28, 33. 

35. 40. +4. 9". 98. 303. 
Moynihan. C. J. 233. 36, 39, 42. 52, 60, 66, 97, 

98, 301. 
Moynihan, Mrs. P. T. ^04. 
Murray, A. F. 42, 78, 80. 
Munger, Geo. W. 157. 

i\Iurphy, Chap. P. B. 239, 45, 48. 51, 54, 67. 
JNIirrphy, Daniel, 248. 
Murphy, E. F. 269, 97, gg. 
Alurphy, J. F. 233, 36, 48, 98, 99. 
Murphy, J. H. 301, 02. 
Murphy, Jeremiah, 226, 301. 
Murphy, Mrs. P. H. 304. 
Murphy, Wm. H. 233, 49, 57, 83. 96, 99. 
Musician's mishap. 205. 
Aluster-in, Co. A. 15: Co. C. 91; Co. H, 16^; 

Co. G. 235. 
Aluster-in Roll, Co. A. 80: Co. C, 147; Co. 

H. 216; Co. G, 298. 
Muster-out. Co. A, 7.=;; Co. C. T3S; Co. H, 

208; Co. G. 2S7. 
Nault. J. B. 216. 17. 
Needham, Wm. I. 157. 
Nelson, A. H. 223. 
Newell, F. G. 42, 79, 81. 
New London, 72. 
Newport, 17, 91, 165. 
Newport News, 253. 

Newton, A. E. 162, 63. 82, 95, 204, 16, 17. 
Newton, Capt. L. 7. 
Newton, O. J. 87. 
New York. 165. 
Nichols. Eli F. 157. 
Nichols, Rev. R. 27g. 
Night march from El Caney, 47. 
Non-com. officers, Co. C, 98. 
Norcross. J. O. 160. 
Norton, Edgar H. 162. 
Nngemt. M. 226. 
O'Brien, U. J. 226. 
O'Brien. Patrick, 231. 
O'Brien. Thos. 233. g8, gg. 
O'Brien, T. J. 233. 
O'Callaghan, J. H. 261, 98, 99. 
O'Callaghan. Dr. T. A. 279, 303. 
O'Conncll, P. J. 279, 301. 
0'Conni>r. D. W. 233. 39. 49. 61, 98, 99. 



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O'Coraior, John F. 229. 

O'Connor, i\Iaj. 'M. J. 239. 68, 74. 

O'Connor, Rev. P. I\I. 239. 

O'Day, Patrick, 240. 

O'Driscoll, Michael, 221, 22, 24. 

O'Flynn, Richard, 6, 2ig, 22, 23, 26, 301. 

O'Gornian, Minnie. 281, 306. 

O'Kecfe, P. D. 2^^,^. :^6. 39, 66, 69, 71, 82, 90, 

98. 99. 
O'Leary, F. A. 226. 
O'Leary, T. S. 5. 
Oliver, E. G. 88. 
O'Neill, Captain, 34. 
O'Neill, Thos. 224, 25. 
Orizaba, 29, loi, 03. 
Osceola, 33. 

O'Sullivan, L. A. 264, 83, 85, 98, 300. 
Out artist afield. 61. " ' 
Owen, F. S. 88. 
Owl and the captain, 185. 
Pando, General, iig. 
Paradis, \. J. 162, 98, 216, 17. 
Parker, Chas. F. Jr. 162. 
Patten, Colonel, 142. 
Pay-day, 24, 175. 277. 
Pearson, Col. E. P. 258, 59. 
Pease, Giles S. 157. 
Pembleton, A. J. 88, in, 46, 47, 
Pervier, Rev. Geore;e W. 227. 7s. 
Perky, H. D. 132. ^ 
Personals, 138. 
Pettet, F. W. 88. 
Petersen, Dr. .-K. C. N. 73. 
Peterson, Chas. .\. 157. 
Philadelohia, 20, 92. 
Physical examinations, 89, 163. 
Pkinkett. F. T. 226. 
Plummer, Lieut. W. H. 10, 12. n, 2t, S4. 49. 

64. 65. 73. -S. So. 
Plymouth, Steamer. 17. 18. 92, 165. 
Pickett, Gen'l Josiah, 225, 29. 
Pig chasin.a;, 94, t68. 
Pickaxe, The only, 197. 
Pierce, E. L. 160, 68. 
Pierce & Co., E. S. 312. 
Pierce, Col. F. E. 6, 164. 
Pierce, F. H. 160. 
Pinkerton, Hon. A. S. 287. 
Pinkham, Chas. H. 287, 309. 
Pinkham, ^Irs. Chas. H. "509. 
Pitts. R. H. 88. 126, 38, 47, 60, 73. 
Point Mulas, 31. 
Poisonous plant, 190. 
Poland, Chas. A. 12. 15. 41. 60. 73, 78. 80. 
Pool, Capt. Leonard, 7. 
Pope, J. E. 88. 118. 3,s. 37, 46. 47. 
Portico, 20. 

Post 10, G. .\. R. II. 74. 
Power, E. J. 12, 157. 
Power, J. F. 283, 86, 87, 98, 300. 
Powers, "Patsey," 236: finds a bill, 249: 49, 

52. 
Powers, R. H. 283. 98. 300 
Powers, Letter of Rev. L. M. 127. 
Pratt, A. W. 162, 63, 73, 90. gt. 216. 17. 
Preble, A. W. 160. 
Prendergast, A. T. 267, 98. gg. 
Prendiville, P. J. 233. 44. 46. 60. 65. 98, gg. 
Prentiss, H. C. 160. 



Preston, Capt. Win. D. 7. 

Prior. Lieut. W. S. 159. 60. 64, 65. 

I'rincc. 15. .\. 88, 102, 35, 37, 46, 47. 

I'rcivan, Mrs. Flora, 310. 

I'nrintiin. .\. L. 160. 62, 78, 215, 16. 

I'uln.iin. Herbert C. 157. 

I'utnani, Davis & Co. 312. 

Putnam, Harry S. 5. 

Quarantine, 70. 

guilty. J. F. 173, 82. 216. 17. 

Quinn. J. I'"rank, 231, 301. 

Rand, .Annie E. 281. 

Randall, Harvey, 162, 201, 14, 16. 

Randall, R. C. 87. 

Rations carried, 38. 

Rawson & Simpson, 312. 

Raymond. Maj. E. T. 5, 132, .508. 

Reardon, John, 305. 

Rebboli, .\. F. 87. "91, loi. 

Rebel yell, 169. 

Recruits for "JEmmets," 246, 47, 

Red Cross flags, 122. 

Red Cross supplies, 5, 277, 85. 

Reed, Geo. A. 162. 

Regan. Wm. 225, 31. 

Reina Mercedes, 67, 276. 

Reinbold, A. J. 71, 79, 81. 

Relief Committee, 312. 

Resting on March to El Caney, l8g. 

Reynolds, C. P. 173, 204, 16, 17. 

Rheutan, A. A. 131, 32, ^v 

Rheutan, W. D. 88, ibg, 46, 47. 

Rice, Chas. F. 283, 98, 300. 

Rice. P. J. 226. 

Rice, Wm. W. 12, 30, 46, 78, 81. 176. 

Richardson, Chief .\Iusician, 23. 

Richardson, Mayor Geo. W. 222. 

Rider, Capt. P. L. 6, 85, 86, 87, 92, 100, 31, 

3^. 33- 5h 55. 57. 310. 
Rir.ll. K. R. 12, 69, 77. 80. 
Rilej-. Wm. J. 272. 83, 98, 300. 
Riordan, John J. 226, 29, 31, 79, 301, 02, 03, 

14- 
Rix, Geo. E. 87, 94, 135, 37, 46. 47. 
"Roast beef," 31. 
Robbins. Howard W. 157. 
Roberts, John, 305. 
Roberts, W. D. 88, 135, 36, .39, 47. 
Robinson, Mrs. Wm. L. 6, 313. 
Rocky Mount, 168. 
Roe, Alfred S. 5. 
Rogers, John J. 231. 
Rooney, R. H. 233, 36. 81. 98, 99. 
Ronayne, Dr. J. A. 277, 82, 93. 
Ronayne. Mar.garet L. 281. 
Roosevelt. Col. 199. 
Roosevelt's horse, 37. 
Rose, Robert L 157. 
Rough Riders, 36. 39, 108, 10. 
Round Robin, 64. 
Russell, Col. E. H. 229, 79. 
Russell, M. L. 237. 79, 82, 303. 
Russell. R. W. 157. 
Ryan, E. H. 233. 
Salisbury. Stephen, 308, 22. 
Sampson. Wm. H. 157. 
Sands. Chas. M. 116, 46, 47- 
San Juan Hill. 120. 258, 66. 
San Juan River, 43. 47. 
Santiago Harbor, 32, 130. 



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Santiago surrenders, 120. 25. 94. 95. 265. 

Santiago visited, 268, 69; view of, 270. 

Santiago wharf, 271. 

Santiago, Scene of final surrender in. 280. 

Saratoga, Transport, 18, 19, 165. 

Sarsfield Guards. 225. 

Savage, G. A. 160. 

Savannah. 20, 95, i6g. 

Sawyer, E. B. 12, 42, 74, 78. So. 

Sawyer, H. N. 160. 

Schofield, W. E. 12. 14, 15, 49, 79. 81. 

Scott, Albert B. 6, 160, 62, 83, 98, 200, 04, 

15. 16. 
Scott, Henry A. 157, 
Scully, P. J. 260, 90. 98. 99. 
Second Mass. and 71st N. Y. contrasted, 

171- 77- 
Second Regiment, ii, 2^. ,?3. 
Serenade to the Sixth, 2ji8. 
Sessions, Frank, 140. 
Seventy-First New York. 18. 20. 22, so. 92, 

167. 
Severy, Wm. M. 71, 79. 81. 
Shea, P. F. 28.^!, 98, 300. 
Shea, Asst. Surg. P. O. 265. 75, 95. 
Shedd, Geo. L. 162, 81, 84, 216, 17. 
Shedd. Roscoe H. 157. 
Shedd. Thomas S. 1.S7. 
Shepardson, A. A. 283. 98, 300. 
Sherman, Rev. Fr. 246. 
Sherman, Wm. E. 12, 14. 79, 81. 
Shoe mending, 198. 
Shooting affray, Lakeland, 95. 170. 
Short. C. S. Jr., t6o. 
Shumway, Lieut. -col. E. R. 7. ir. 18. 34, 39, 

72. io<). 24, 31. 34, 38, 66, 67, 69, 90.9s. 

269. 
Siboney, 33, 3S> 108, 257. 
Sixth Regt. departs. 238. 
Sixth U. S. Cavalryman, 116. 
Skerrett, Mark. 277. 
Skerrett, N. J. 6. 229, ^^, 66. 67. 69. 81. 97, 

98. 
Sleeper, Chas. W. 162, 98. 216. 17. 
Slocum. S. 160, 168. 
Smith Charles, 162. 

Smith, C. E. 5. 160, 62. 78. 87. 204. 15. 16. 
Smith Co., E, T. 312. 
Smith. Jas. W. 4-'- 45. 79. 81. 
Smith. Wm. S., Jr. 162. 
"Snowball," 179. 87. 93. 
Soap incident.s. 32, 177, 97. 
Sons of Veterans, 11, 74. 
Southmayd, Major, 54. 
Spanish block-house, 262. 
Spanish gun, 322. 
Spanish sharpshooter, lis. 261. 
Sparrell. C. H. 160. 68. 
Sparrell, F. J. 160. 
Spencer, Wni. li. 226. 
Spiders in Lakeland, 99. 
Spiers. F. R. 160. 

Sprague, Gen'l A. B. R. 7, 229, 79. 308. 
Springer, F. A. 157. 
Springfield, 135. 
Spy fracas, 238, 39. 
Squires. A. T. 30, 79, 81. 
Stalker. C. D. 160. 
Standish, L. O. 76, 79, 81. 



Standish. Wm. G. 12. 15, 79. 81. 

Steals wagon-load. 239. 

Stearns, E. A. 88. 126, 35, 37, 47. 

Stebbins, Geo. W. 87, 109, 13, 30, 46. 47. 57. 

Steele, E. F. 258. 61, 98, 99- 

Stevenson Jo'hn, 214. 

Stevenson, J. C. 87. 157. 

Stevenson, Wm. 157. 

Stewart, A. D. 88, 136, 39, 46, 47. 

Stiles, Alaj. F. G. 151, 52, 221. 

Stiles, Wm. H. 162, 204, 16, 17. 

Stone, Gen'l Ebenezer. 222, 23. 

Strong, Gov. Caleb, 83. 

Studley, Lt.-col. J. M. 221. 

Sullivan, D. J. 226. 

Sullivan, Edw. F. 233. 60; his death. 272; 

289, 91, 99. 
Sullivan, Henry, 233, 67, 8g, 300. 
Sullivan. Gov. Jas. 83. 
bullivan, Jas. E. 238. 
Sullivan, J. E. 233. 
Sullivan. J, F. 233. 
Sullivan, Capt. J. J. 254. 
Sullivan, Gen'l John, 83. 
Sullivan, ^largaret. 305. 
Sullivan. P. F. 6, 231. "33, 35. 44. 51. 56, 59, 

69. 77- 97. 98. .300. 
Sullivan, P. J. 233. 55, 60. 97. 98. 
Sunday in Camp Mass. 99. 
Surf bathing, 37. 
Surrender, 57, 265. 
Sweeney. J. H. 233. 46, 59. 98. 300. 
Tableaux in Salisbury Hall, 310. 
Taft, F. B. 88, 119, 20, 36. 39, 47. 
Taft. Fred W. 162, 80, 204, 16, 17. 
Taft. R. B. 160. 
Taft, Robert, 87, 118, 46, 47. 
Tampa, 23. 177; Bay, 24. 
Tansey, Wm. J. 231. 40. 79. 301, 02, 04, 06, 
Tarantula incident. 37. 
Tatman, C. T. 160. 
Taylor, Gen'l Chas. H. 247. 
Taylor, G. P. 160. 
Taylor. J. H. 135. 46, 47. 
Telegram, Worcester, 21, 57, 199, 245. 
Tents for Co. G arrive, 265, 
Thaxter, Levi. 154. 
Thirteenth in the story. 103, 19. 
Thomas, Q. F. 12. 76, 79. 81. 
Thompson, .•\lex. G. 12. 23. 69. 78. 80. 
Thompson, C. W. 162, 86. 216. 17. 
Thomson, Geo. M. 12. 
Tillery, Annie, 168. 
Tinkham, Eugene L. 1 57- 
Titus. Jos. H. 7- 
Tisdell. Lieut. M. H. 12, 16, 25, 34. 36. 50. 52, 

54. 55.. 57, 60, 78, 80. 134. 
Tobacco. High price of, 41, 262. 
Todd, J. E. L. III. 14. 18. 46, 47. 
Tomato can labels. 262. 
Tone. Wm. 226. 
Tuner. Wm. H. 231. 301. 02. 
T..,,liill, J. J. 226. 
Tci.imey. D. P. 6. 
Torkelson. 1. G. 12. 

Torkelson, R. .\. 12. 22. 49. 57. 74. 80. 81, 
Tourtelotte, .\. H. 216. 17. 
Towne, City Clerk, 173. 
Tracy, H. P. 245, 98, 300. 
Traver, W. A. 12. 14, 34, 78, 80. 



INDKX. 331 

Trenches, Second Mass. in the, 187. Wentworth, H. B. 67, 87, 106, 30, ?6, 30, 47. 

Tribe, Geo. T. 322. West, Clias. F. 286. 

Tribute to Post 10. .;i6. West Point Lieutenant. 70. 

Trowbridge, Dr. E. H. 73. West Point prig, A. igg. 

Trudel, G. L. 204, 16, 17. ■ Wheeler, .\. F. 6, 102, 16, 35, 37. 46. 

Trumbull. Mrs. 133. Wheeler, B. F. 30. 80, 81 " 

Tucker, F. J. 135, 37, 46, 47. Wheeler, Henry E. 1,7. 

Turner, Wm. T. 22, 80, 81. Wheeler, Gen'l Joe. 36, 70, n?, 77, 267, 75: 

Undergrave, Silas, 162, 200, 10, li, 17. l,js letter -'81 

Vaughan, C. A. Jr. 87. 102, 37. 46. 47^ Wheeler', J. W.'i24, 36, 39, 46, 47. 

Vaughn, K L. ,60, 62, 72. 78, 81, 85, 204. wheeler. J. W. 124, 36, 39, 47. 

,, 'S, 16, Willi. pie. ^lajor, 167, 95- 

Vesper, L'cut 4>. 66, 67. \\ l,i,,,. Peter N. 12. 42, 44. 49. 80, 81. 

Virginiius Wall. lOy. Wlniinsr. Wrr^. T. 1^7. 

Vizard, W. J. 206. Whiiiaker. Abel E". 162. 

Volunteer Aid Association, 308. Whitlaker. Leaver. 162, 86. 216, 217. 

Volunteer nurses. 306, 07. W'hittall. :M. J. 279. 

Volunteer physicians, 282, 93, 95, 303. Wliiitle, Jas. C. 157. 

Vosberg, E. H. 190, 216, 17. Williams. Cant. (Co. D. 45. 

Vulcan repair ship, 255. Williams, Col. W. A. 220. 

Wagner. Capt. C. .\. 123, 244. Wills, A. ^L 3s, 52, 76. 80, 81. 

Walker, Hon. J, H. 2S7. Wilmot, T. L. 87, 90, 146, 47. 

Wallace, .\rthur J. 157. Wilson. .\. E. 160. 

Wallace, S. A. 12. 30, 80, 8r. Wilson, A. W. 160. 

Walsh, Harry, 162. Wine found, 37. 

Ward. F. W. 88. Wintersgill, .-V. T. 87. 90, 130, 46. 47. 

Ward, Capt. Geo. H. 7. Wiseman, Thos. F; 233. 

Ward, Ralph W. 157. Writing material scarce, 193. 

Ware, Horace L. 12. Wolcott, Gov. Roger, 9, 16, 72, 91, 135, 65, 

Ware, J. C. 162, 86, 204, 16, 17. 235, 37, 38, 40. 

Warren, Lieut. H. H. 82, 87, gr, 722, 40, 46, Wood, W. H. Jr. 172, 203, 15. 16. 

47. Woods, H. W. 12. 

Washburn, F. W. 87. "Wood's Weary Walkers," 108. 

Washington, 20, 92, 169. Wooldridge, E. D. 88. 90, 146. 47. 

Watermelon. The only. 132. Worcester Board of Trade. 6. 

Waycross, 95. Worcester helps the regulars, 132. 

"Weary Willies." 173. Worcester officers at Montauk. 134. 

Weaveir, Lieut. W. .M. 15, 163, 234. Worcester welcomes companies, 207. 

Webb, Geo. D. 322. ' Wounded twice, 49. 

Weixler, Carl W. 6q. 76, 80, Si. Ybor, City, 23, 24, 107, 72. 

Weldon, 20. Veaw, C. S. 12, 15, 17, 19. 2S3. 87. 
Wellington. Gen'l 1". W. 72, 135, 59. 22^. 31, "Ye brave orderly,"' 62. 

79, 86, 301, 03. Young, General, 132. 
Wellington Rilles, 159: at Camp Dewey, Young. H. C. 5, 6, 160, 62, 68, 73. 78, 85, 91, 

162; leave Framingham, 165; get the 95, 204, 06, 15. 16. 

cigars, 167; get roses. 168: leave Lake- Young, Win. S. 60. 80. 8r. 

land, 174; nationalities, 175; in the Y. M. C. A. in Lakeland, loi. 

trenches, 181; night march, 187; first Zaeder, Emil. 87, 109, 35, 37, 46, 47. 

death, 200; leave Cuba, 202; reach Zaeder, F. J. 87. 

Montauk, 205; leave, 206. Zaeder, Julius, 131, 32, 33. 
Wellwood, Chap. j. C. 12, 23. 62, 163, 73. 



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